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
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.
—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
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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The gossips leak letters indicating the family’s ruthlessness.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Hometown gossips and lonely girls to the front.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Investigators are using tools ranging from electronic surveillance — which includes the internet — undercover operations and informants to monitor any potential threat of attack from terrorist groups Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and ISIS.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Last month, Elicker announced Jacobson’s retirement, saying the former chief acknowledged taking money from a city fund used to pay confidential informants who assist in narcotics investigations, according to The Associated Press.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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Security services also rely on informers to tell them who might be using Starlink, and search internet and social media traffic for signs it has been used.—
David Rising,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Circulators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circulators. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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