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Aiken rose to fame as the earnest, vocally gifted runner-up on “American Idol” circa 2003.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

My first laptop, circa 2000, was the iBook G3.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

As Steph brilliantly frames it, welcome to the subprime auto-lending sector, circa late 2025.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 6, 2025

“It is a style of supernaturalist spirituality and miracle- and prophecy-based preaching that was fairly niche within American evangelicalism circa 2015,” explained Dr. Matthew Taylor, a religious scholar at the Institute for Islamic-Christian-Jewish Studies.

From Salon • May 19, 2025

OPPOSITE: Map of the world, circa 1700, showing Maria’s voyage.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman