How to Use in circulation in a Sentence

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  • Factors influencing this summer’s spread likely have to do with more variants in circulation and time spent indoors because of hot weather.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • At least two-thirds of the AR-15s in circulation in the U.S. have been manufactured in the last decade.
    Bill Frist, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • While there are a slew of variants in circulation in the U.S., BA.2.86 remains very rare.
    Sara G. Miller, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The company says the move will reduce the amount of plastic in circulation (and in landfills) by more than 4,400 tons per year.
    Chris Morris, Fortune Europe, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The total value of the coins in circulation reached $70 billion.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Here’s the good news for lovers of his brisket and cornbread: Coop’s food will be back in circulation though continued catering and new pop-ups.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The museum said the ruler's cross coins were in circulation for less than a few decades before losing the power struggle to his son, Svend Tveskæg, in the mid-980s.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The museum said the ruler's cross coins were in circulation for less than a few decades before losing the power struggle to his son, Svend Tveskæg, in the mid-980s.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The original Wuhan variant has not been in circulation since 2021 and so no longer needs to be part of the vaccine, experts told the panel.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • The original Wuhan variant has not been in circulation since 2021 and so no longer needs to be part of the vaccine, experts told the panel.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • The device is in the beta testing phase, with 20 units in circulation, including among some users who paid to be part of the trial.
    Ramsha Zubairi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Anne Harrington, who's worked in circulation for the past six years, said she's been waiting for a new library for 15 years.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2023
  • This ingredient aids in circulation, which helps the skin look smoother and brighter.
    Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The meme caught fire and different versions of it have been in circulation ever since.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The chart below shows the number of notes in circulation, in billions, as of December.
    Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • While there are two TBE vaccines in circulation, vaccine uptake is low in regions where the virus is new.
    Time, 28 July 2023
  • But booksellers often lack the knowledge of what books are still in circulation at schools and what customers use their books for.
    Nadia Bidarian, CNN, 4 July 2023
  • Visa has the most credit cards in circulation, with almost half the market, according to Bankrate.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • There are half a dozen different designs in circulation for how best to float wind turbines.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • If the program is not renewed, passes in circulation will remain active through the rest of 2024, Norton said.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Any jean in circulation long enough will eventually have a good one.
    Jane Herman, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
  • This will reduce the volume of plastics in circulation.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Someone else will be grateful that this monster is still in circulation.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Early in the pandemic, the volume of U.S. dollars in circulation soared.
    John Greenwood, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
  • In April, there were $18 billion worth of Terra in circulation, making Terra the world's third-largest stablecoin.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 11 May 2022
  • The hundreds of billions of pre-2021 bills currently in circulation will continue to be valid.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The opposite could also happen if a new variant is able to cause more severe disease or spread more rapidly than the versions of the virus in circulation today.
    Matthew Griffin, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Erythropoietin is a hormone produced in the kidneys that protects the body from having too few RBCs in circulation.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2022
  • No one is sure how many U.S. bank notes already reside in Argentina — the figure could be as high as 10 percent of notes in circulation, by one estimate.
    Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Everyone who signs up to the project has their irises and other facial features scanned by one of the hundreds of Orbs in circulation, in return for a chunk of a new cryptocurrency.
    WIRED, 28 July 2023

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