circulation
noun
an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
circulations
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pluralof circulation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At a time when even the largest American newspapers rarely had circulations exceeding 2,000, over 100,000 copies of “Common Sense” flew from patriot presses by mid-April and reached some 500,000 by 1778.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
As the world heats unevenly, this causes changes in the atmospheric circulations that steer storms across the planet.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2024
The code has been applied to a wide range of problems, from modeling the dynamics inside individual cells, to ocean and atmospheric circulations.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
In 1985 he began a climb to newspapers with larger newspaper circulations, taking a job as the Mariners beat writer for the now-defunct Bellevue Journal-American.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
Too many of the financiers by profession are apt to see nothing in revenue but banks, and circulations, and annuities on lives, and tontines, and perpetual rents, and all the small wares of the shop.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
