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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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
He will get men into his church if he has to run prize fights in the pulpit, foot races down the aisles, and circularize through the mail.
From Time Magazine Archive
I commenced the preparation of educational literature with which I meant to circularize the country.
From The Romance and Tragedy by William Ingraham Russell
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
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
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
Turner, meanwhile, circularized colleagues, sending them several of Abraham's quotations, together with underlying source documents that seemed contradictory.
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
The State was organized by counties and the speaking and circularizing were done under the immediate direction of the county chairmen.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper
No test is ever conclusive, but very little information of value is to be obtained by circularizing less than five hundred names.
From How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence by Mary Owens Crowther
I'd look fine, wouldn't I, circularizing a dead story?
From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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