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
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
During the Hauptmann trial she circularized a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent.
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
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
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 William John Locke
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