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
"It takes $3000 every time you circularize the constituency, you know——" He lounged toward the window and looked out again upon the pleasant, mellow scene around Fountain Square.
From The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors by Elizabeth Garver Jordan
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
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
When he first circularized schools in 1938, he got just one client: Manlius School in New York State.
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
The new voters on the registration lists were circularized.
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
I'd look fine, wouldn't I, circularizing a dead story?
From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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 Sinclair Lewis
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
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