circular
adjective
circularly
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a word derived from
circular.
Example Sentences
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Scholar Andrew Elliott has suggested that certain medievalisms, which he calls “banal,” detach from the actual past and instead reference one another circularly.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025
It has already been established that two classes of polarised, linearly and circularly, can detect changes in skin that aren't visible to the human eye.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2024
When light reflects off a concentration of molecules with the same handedness, called homochiral molecules, some of this light becomes circularly polarized: the reflected waveforms corkscrew in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2021
Newsworthiness is a circularly defined concept that people rely on all the time and it actually means nothing.
From The Verge ● May 11, 2021
But Joe was readier with his definition than I had expected, and completely stopped me by arguing circularly, and answering with a fixed look, “Her.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
