verb
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to distribute circulars to
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to canvass or petition (people), as for support, votes, etc, by distributing letters, etc
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to make circular
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Origin of circularize
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And there are ample opportunities to circularize the electronics industry.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 21, 2022
The plan called for a second burn, to circularize the remaining orbits.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2018
Planets that orbit close to their host stars in slightly eccentric orbits have another source of energy: the star will raise tides in these planets that tend to circularize the orbits.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Many of its managers began to circularize the pension lists of cities, counties and corporations with the same plea.
From Time Magazine Archive
JONES: We would be glad to make up a mailing list and turn it over to the secretary if he should want to circularize in making this offer or any other offer for memberships.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922 by Northern Nut Growers Association
In addition to this, we circularized 1,000 businessmen in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, as well as directors of large corporations, automobile executives, doctors, ministers and educators.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 5, 2015
From mailing-list brokers they bought 100,000 names, circularized them, got between five and six thousand replies.
From Time Magazine Archive
A tireless, homeless agitator, she has been freely circularized by her enemies as "German spy, Bolshevik agent and swindler of Henry Ford," by her friends as "the world's most powerful woman."
From Time Magazine Archive
Bishop Takach obeyed the order, but in Bridgeport, Conn., a priest dared not only oppose it but circularized Greek Catholic churches to stir up more opposition.
From Time Magazine Archive
We circularized the voters in groups again and again—lawyers, business men, farmers, etc., with literature adapted to each group.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper
Tirelessly circularizing small-town bankers and car owners, George Pepperdine sold that year $12,000 worth of tops, tires, gadgets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before long, zealous Dr. L&233;vitt was circularizing Connecticut voters with an appeal to form a new party, inviting replies to be addressed to him at the Department of Justice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-five dollars of the cost of this circularizing the president paid out of his own pocket.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 by Northern Nut Growers Association
I'd look fine, wouldn't I, circularizing a dead story?
From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Rex Ellingwood Beach
After a while they were approached personally and if they said "No" we continued circularizing them a little while longer along a different line.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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