How to Use back in/into circulation in a Sentence

back in/into circulation

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  • People who haven’t been able to wear most of the items in their closets for a year are more aware of waste and want to put their clothes back in circulation.
    Leannie Italie, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2021
  • Manuel said his project is still going strong, with 195 bikes back in circulation.
    Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Doses may be back in circulation across the U.S. as early as this weekend.
    Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • To help with the coin shortage and because volumes are ticking up again, Coinstar is making more pickups at kiosks to help get coins back into circulation.
    Natalie Walters, Dallas News, 30 June 2020
  • Could used syringes potentially be cleaned and put back into circulation in case of a shortage?
    Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Real gold discoveries in the Yukon and Alaska, and a war with Spain, created jobs and put money back into circulation.
    WSJ, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Meeting rooms in both counties are closed, and books are quarantined for 72 hours before being released back into circulation.
    Catherine Matos, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • In some ways, the rise of rhinoviruses is a trial run for Covid-19 testing as more respiratory viruses get back into circulation.
    Gregory Barber, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Horseshoe is back in circulation after being seemingly buried in the recesses of Fort Foxborough.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
  • For all, a familiar political drug is back in circulation.
    Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The lawsuit alleges some rafts, including the Jaramillos' boat, had temporarily been pulled for repairs that day and put back into circulation without proper testing.
    Melissa Alonso, Hannah Sarisohn and Steve Almasy, CNN, 1 July 2022
  • Frankfurt’s Bankhaus Scheich has a budding business cleaning crypto and getting it back into circulation.
    Laura Smythe, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The containers themselves will go back into circulation in the shipping industry, which is already facing a dire shortage of containers—one that the Ever Given’s seizure by Egyptian authorities only made worse.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 5 July 2021
  • Resale provides a key solution to the negative environmental impact of overconsumption by putting back into circulation clothes and accessories that would otherwise be piling up in our closets—or, worse, in a landfill.
    Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 July 2021

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