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
The committee then resolved to circularize the stockholders and solicit their proxies, with the purpose of voting a new board of directors into power at the company's annual meeting on Mar. 10.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the reports are soon assembled at Geneva it is planned to circularize agricultural and horticultural libraries and attempt to place complete or nearly complete sets in as many as possible.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 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
He looked the other way when Martin L. Davey, onetime Congressman, circularized 40,000 Ohio Democrats on the subject of Baker-for-President.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the Hauptmann trial, she circularized the Hunterdon County, N. J. venire rolls with a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were circularized to find out whether most of them would be willing to attend a caucus in Washington about that date.
From Time Magazine Archive
The association circularized all the women's organizations of the State, the fraternal organizations, clergymen, grange officers, lawyers, office-holders and other special groups.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted
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
Tirelessly circularizing small-town bankers and car owners, George Pepperdine sold that year $12,000 worth of tops, tires, gadgets.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The only thing that caused him any uneasiness was an overdraft at his bank due to cover which he had to pay on shares purchased for him by a circularizing bucket-shop keeper.
From Septimus by Locke, William John
Carl was circularizing a list of possible purchasers, and corresponding with makers of camping goods.
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair
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