circulate

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Thereupon the sarcasms circulate, and every disaster in France is turned into nonsense.

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  1. intransitive verb To move in or flow through a circle or circuit: blood circulating through the body.
  2. intransitive verb To move around, as from person to person or place to place: a guest circulating at a party.
  3. intransitive verb To move about or flow freely, as air.
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  • Doors stood open to allow the warm air to circulate, and there was plenty of bright electric light. —  Ladies' Bane - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 22
  • Rumors of people studying for hours circulate, and emails with pages of outlined notes are sent out.
  • But as long as the virus continues to circulate, the threat that it could mutate to pass more easily among humans remains, according to the U.N. report. —  In The Days
  • But Latin compendia of Platonist and Aristotelian teachings did circulate, as did medical handbooks in the tradition of Galen. —  Assyrian International News Agency
  • Yet the scare stories continued to circulate, and bankers were advised yesterday to dress down and wear ordinary street clothes, or better still to work from home, lest they became victims of the predicted 'anarchist mob'.
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circulate:   circulated ·  circulating ·  circulates
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  1. From Middle English circulat, continuously distilled, from Latin circulātus, past participle of circulāre, to make circular, from circulus, circle; see circle.

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  1. from Late Latin circulatus, past participle of circulare, make circular, encircle, a later collateral form of Latin circulari, form a circle (of men) around one's self, from circulus, a circle: see circle, n. and v.
  2. from Late Latin circulatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/ˈsərkjuleɪt/
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