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
Example Sentences
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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
Which reminds me, Mr. Clacton, don't you think we should circularize the provinces with Partridge's last speech?
From Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia
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 a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent.
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
From mailing-list brokers they bought 100,000 names, circularized them, got between five and six thousand replies.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1919 every club was again circularized and the answers showed that the women throughout the State wanted favorable action by the State Federation.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted
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
Therefore, the information that is obtained in the circularizing and sale of one product has to be taken warily when applied to another product.
From How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence by Crowther, Mary Owens
I'd look fine, wouldn't I, circularizing a dead story?
From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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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