to circulate
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3.9
- verb
- /ˈsɜrkjʊˌleɪt/
:
difundir
- The third petition, signed by 100,000, had been circulated in every state and territory.
- widely circulated
- circulate rumors
- circulate misinformation
Meantime, there's a new interview circulating of Israeli first responders.
- Meantime, there's a new interview circulating of Israeli first responders.
- This big news circulated through the media last week.
- I became a household name and and my name started circulating in Hollywood right.
- They they don't, they don't privilege certain worldviews, allow those stories to circulate more easily, for sure.
- So they're like, but it's already been written and it's been published and it's been circulated.
- And once again, it's it's like all these things circulate round.
Examples
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The news of Brooke's disappearance was widely circulated on social media, perhaps because of last year's case involving police...
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This big news circulated through the media last week.
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When you have read them, you may decide to circulate them.
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I think we should circulate them.
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That file was not supposed to circulate.
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The newspapers would circulate coast to coast.
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Do you know that there are rumors about you circulating?
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Each week, we meet to discuss current investment proposals circulating in the firm and assign priorities.
Academic text (1999) -
The list of discarded questions was circulated to all participants to provide an opportunity for reconsideration.
Academic text (2011) -
The manager decided to circulate the memo to all employees so everyone is informed.
Synonyms
750
1.6
To become known by many people
325
2.0
Send sound or information from one place to another
199
3.4
To send information, ideas, or feelings to someone
169
3.7
To send something from one thing to another, for example a message or disease
134
2.7
To give something to another person, often information or a message
94
4.0
Make something known to many people using news or social media
87
2.0
Give things to several people or places
85
2.3
Spread among many people, as with a story or rumor
81
3.0
To make news or information known to many people
76
2.5
Give news, a message, or something you received to another person
68
3.1
Tell many people about something so they know
56
2.8
Information becomes known to many people
48
6.8
To spread information or ideas widely so many people know them
40
5.5
To spread out and reach many people or places
33
4.3
To teach knowledge or skills to someone
31
3.2
Tell many people about something so they know
23
5.9
Spread ideas, news, or feelings to many people
8
6.1
Spread slowly through a group until many people know or feel it
5
3.2
Give a copy of something to each person in a group, for example by email
4
2.0
Make information spread among many people
2
3.4
Pass a disease from one person or animal to another
To send the same information to many people to inform or ask their opinion
Antonyms
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word circulate comes from the Latin circulare, from circulus meaning 'circle', and is like the English word circle. So to circulate news or papers is to send them 'around' from person to person.