circulators

plural of circulator
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. 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
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Noun
  • Jessica Simpson has gotten used to gossipers gossiping about her private life.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Though the Colonel had many enemies, the violence of his death shocks the sleepy village and starts the tongues of the local gossips wagging.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 July 2026
  • Even when Romanzy goes off on how stupid and ugly Caleb is — and gossips that his parents abandoned him because something must be wrong with him — Mary goes along with it.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026
Noun
  • The Justice Department unveiled this case against it, essentially arguing that SPLC had been defrauding its donors by paying informants within far-right groups who were infiltrating those groups.
    Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
  • In 2020, for example, the high court ruled that Muslim men who claimed that their religious rights were violated for being placed on the government’s no-fly list after refusing to serve as FBI informants could sue the FBI agents for damages.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.
    Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • And so every regime invests in having student informers.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

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“Circulators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circulators. Accessed 20 Jul. 2026.

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