as in gossipers
a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others
an ugly rumor about one of our staffers was circulating, and, as usual, the chief circulator was the in-house busybody
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Recent Examples of circulators
School board races are nonpartisan, but objectors argue the restriction applies because many candidates used circulators who also gathered signatures for candidates in the March Democratic primary.
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Kate Armanini,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
These include helium circulators, turbines, steam generators, pumps, and instrumentation and controls for the reactor’s power and heat generation.
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Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Feb. 2026
Constitutional concerns helped tank a bill Tuesday in the South Dakota House of Representatives that aimed to ban payments to petition circulators in ballot measure campaigns.
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John Hult,
States Newsroom,
28 Jan. 2026
McVay highlighted a batch of about 7,000 petitions that were deemed valid that were collected by circulators suspected of fraud.
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Romy Ellenbogen,
Miami Herald,
20 Jan. 2026
Kate Armanini,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
These include helium circulators, turbines, steam generators, pumps, and instrumentation and controls for the reactor’s power and heat generation.
—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Feb. 2026
Constitutional concerns helped tank a bill Tuesday in the South Dakota House of Representatives that aimed to ban payments to petition circulators in ballot measure campaigns.
—
John Hult,
States Newsroom,
28 Jan. 2026
McVay highlighted a batch of about 7,000 petitions that were deemed valid that were collected by circulators suspected of fraud.
—
Romy Ellenbogen,
Miami Herald,
20 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circulators
Noun
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Jessica Simpson has gotten used to gossipers gossiping about her private life.
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The piece contends that while rumors circulated among political gossips and online, these remained unsubstantiated whispers that did not meet journalism’s evidentiary threshold for publication.
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Local gossips claimed that Chin Ming Tai paid Moy Sing a bride price of $20,000, an astronomical sum for the time.
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More recently, the Department of Justice charged the Southern Poverty Law Center — a civil rights nonprofit accused by Republicans of targeting conservatives in its work tracking extremists — with defrauding donors through payments to informants.
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Jordan cited accusations that paid informants associated with the organization’s former field-source program encouraged participation in extremist events while working undercover inside hate groups.
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One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.
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“Circulators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circulators. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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