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circulating

circulating

3.4
Moving from person to person or place to place
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɜrkjəˌleɪtɪŋ/
translation icon : circulante
  • News of the upcoming concert has been circulating in the community for weeks.

And that has been shown to kill circulating tumor cells.

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Examples

  • I became a household name and, and my name started circulating in Hollywood.

  • But the CIA headquarters knew a lot about Lee Harvey Oswald from files that were circulating to them from the FBI.

  • So these are some of the main ideas circulating around in this short little work.

  • This became popular on the Internet and keeps circulating around.

  • You know, I was simply trying to capture the the ideas that were circulating at the time.

  • So this is something that's been circulating somewhere for, for a while.

  • These sorts of things are circulating on TikTok as bait.

  • With Bitcoin, you know exactly how much Bitcoin is circulating and where every single Bitcoin has been sent.

  • What we do know is that if you consume healthy fats and healthy oils, you can actually improve your circulating blood cholesterol levels.

  • The latest trends in fashion are constantly circulating among young people.

Antonyms

45 3.8

Not moving or changing over time

Compounds

A library that lends books to members to take home

circulating decimal
  • Specialized
7.9

A decimal number with a group of digits that repeats forever

How Widespread

ubiquitous
51 9.0
widespread
256 3.6
circulating
3.4
limited
162 2.0

Surface Forms

circulating positive

Morphology

circulating = circulate (transparent) = circulate + ing

The adjective is formed by the present-participle '-ing' from the verb 'circulate', and its meaning ('passing or moving around') is directly derived from that verb.

Etymology

Circulating comes from the old Latin word circulus, which means 'circle' or 'around', so imagine money, news, or objects moving in a loop from person to person. That's why something 'circulating' is actively moving or being passed along.