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Wiktionary

  1. circlingnoun

    A circular motion.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Circlingparticipial adj.

    Having the form of a circle; circular; round.

    Etymology: from To circle.

    Round he surveys, and well might, where he stood
    So high above the circling canopy
    Of night’s extended shade. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iii.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Circling

    of Circle

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of CIRCLING in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of CIRCLING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of CIRCLING in a Sentence

  1. Brandon Garic Notch:

    The taste of blood and that annoying sting of a bitten tongue. Once man got the taste of blood there was no going back, like a serpent circling itself eating its own tail.

  2. Lisa Kaltenegger:

    If planets can survive their star's demise, could life as well ? The James Webb Space Telescope, launching soon, could very well answer the question, if life could survive even on planets circling stellar corpses, that would make for an amazing future of our cosmos.

  3. Susan Scott:

    We have always thought that there should be binary systems of a black hole and a neutron star circling each other out in space, so if this event is confirmed, it would be the first evidence that such systems do actually exist, and that some of them are spiraling closer and closer and eventually smashing together.

  4. Brandon Garic Notch:

    The taste of blood and that annoying sting of a bitten tongue. Once man got the taste of blood there was no going back, like a serpent circling itself eating its own tail.”

  5. Scott Gottlieb:

    We may need to decide that once we get to 20 cases per 100,000 per day that may be the point at which we start to withdraw these things, i'm not so sure we're going to get to 10 anytime soon. Right now, Washington DC is at 15. New York's at 75. With this new Omicron strain that's circling we may stall out around 20 -- and that may be the point where we have to consider withdrawing a lot of these measures.

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