circle

/ˈsɜr·kəl/ v [I/T] (SHAPE)

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› [I] A hawk circled high overhead, looking for food. [T] I circled the block to find a parking space. › fig. If you circle around a subject, you talk about things related to it, often to avoid talking about the subject itself: [I] He circled around the idea of paying authors more for their books.

(Definition of circle v (SHAPE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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