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as in conference
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as in to circle
to travel completely around
after circuiting the exterior of the church, the procession headed inside
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Recent Examples of circuit
Ali Rampling, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
In addition to holiday and New Year's activities, winter poses the opportunity to taste seasonal delicacies and join in on local traditions like the Viennese ball circuit, or more widespread celebrations like Carnival.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025
Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 10 May 2022
These are tested and wrapped in plastic packages to connect them to circuit boards or parts of a system.
—New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
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Noun
On Wednesday he was pictured out on the team’s Fiorano circuit in Fiorano Modenese, wearing his famous yellow helmet and driving Ferrari’s 2023 car.
—Ali Rampling, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
In addition to holiday and New Year's activities, winter poses the opportunity to taste seasonal delicacies and join in on local traditions like the Viennese ball circuit, or more widespread celebrations like Carnival.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
Damage to the pons can short-circuit its ability to paralyze the sleeping body.
—Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 10 May 2022
These are tested and wrapped in plastic packages to connect them to circuit boards or parts of a system.
—New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for circuit
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These methods include measuring waist circumference, determining the waist-to-hip ratio or using special equipment, such as a DEXA scan, which measures bone density, to figure out body fat percentage.—
Faye Chiu,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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Adiposity can be determined by measuring a person’s waist circumference or taking body scans to measure fat mass, according to the researchers.—
Melissa Rudy,
Fox News,
20 Jan. 2025
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Glenn landed six more triple jumps, including three in combination, before her only real mistake — a fall on her triple loop late in the program.—
Dave Skretta,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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The one-mile loop is located in the East District and features educational signs informing visitors about the area’s history and its flora, an old homestead foundation, and a saguaro grove.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Jan. 2025
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Cena, who is currently on a retirement tour and has held 16 world championships, is expected to leave WWE by the end of 2025.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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Two decades later, the surviving members of the group — Manuel died in 1986 — embarked on an extended tour of mostly small venues that included the House of Blues in West Hollywood and led in a slot at Woodstock ’94.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
21 Jan. 2025
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The idea of a strategic reserve of digital tokens like bitcoin has long been floated in cryptocurrency circles, but gained traction this summer, when both Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, discussed it at the annual Bitcoin conference.—
Rob Wile,
NBC News,
23 Jan. 2025
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In the same way people trusted me after that first conference, thousands of new clients began trusting me through my online presence.—
Rafael Alatorre,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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The topic of an engagement had been circling the couple for more than a year.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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However, with Europe’s elite clubs always after young, ball-playing centre-backs, other sides will soon be circling.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Let your shared vision — to help students fulfill their dreams — be the compass that guides your governance.—
Bridget Lee,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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But since Brexit, the U.K. has been economically and strategically off compass.—
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Musk publicly congratulated his space rival Bezos in multiple posts last week after a Bezos Blue Origin rocket reached orbit.—
Nathan Bomey,
Axios,
22 Jan. 2025
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But this wasn't due to new satellites entering Earth's orbit, which is how SpaceX typically upgrades Starlink.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
21 Jan. 2025
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His motto, ‘Dream, Rise, Ignite,’ has become my guiding force, and the mission to complete this cinematic journey has been my dedication ever since.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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Channel 4 has made a documentary following the emotional journey of Palestinian filmmaker and journalist Yousef Hammash, who was displaced six months after his Gaza reporting sparked global outrage.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Circuit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circuit. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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