Example Sentences

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By changing the helicity, or twist, of the circularly polarized pulses, the team could stabilize either the clockwise or anti-clockwise arrangement of electric dipoles.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2025

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

Scientists currently know of no other mechanisms, besides molecules generated by life, that can cause complex circularly polarized light signals.

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