circulate
verb (used without object)
to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point.
is circulating
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present progressiveof circulate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is circulating photos of 27 people seen earlier this month at the auto supply business at Atlantic and Olympic boulevards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in California — raising concerns that disease activity could rise heading into the summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
Extra money in the system can also rekindle inflation, so investors are watching the M2 money supply—a rough gauge of how much cash is circulating in the system.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
Current and former FAA controllers say the Airservices Australia hiring effort is circulating widely through the workforce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
In the blood, while it is circulating briskly in its vessels, there are distributed through it, without contact with each other, the millions of oxygen carriers called blood corpuscles.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various
