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circus

[sur-kuhs] / ˈsɜr kəs /


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"NO CIRCUS" The parliamentary committee has been pursuing the phone-hacking allegations for more than four years, saying in a report in 2010 that it was inconceivable that managers did not know about the practice.

From Reuters • Jul. 19, 2011

IT'S A CIRCUS, IT'S A DISGRACE, and the sooner it's over the better for Los Angeles.

From Time Magazine Archive

People crack peanuts at the CIRCUS, because the cracking of peanuts in its prosaic dreariness is in harmony with the cracking of jokes by the dreary clown.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870 by Various

The average little girl is, moreover, seldom found at the CIRCUS.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870 by Various




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