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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. Johnny Phillips:

    California isn't circling the drain because it’s too big to govern. The state is a basket case because ruling Democrats have an unquenchable thirst for emptying the prisons, enabling an exploding homeless population and jacking up every imaginable tax, since the 1990s the state and its voters have drifted far to the left.

  2. The New York Times:

    Ms. Tanden responded by circling back to Faiz Shakir after the interview and, according to a person in the room, punching Faiz Shakir in the chest.

  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. Mark Wilson:

    Insurance is in the stone ages, while people are circling Mars in spaceships in other industries.

  5. Kim Schmett:

    She definitely has a path, but it's such an abnormal year. ... Clearly( Trump) is the huge question and everyone else is circling. Right now, my reading of the Iowa Republican Party is that it is massively pro-Trump.

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