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circa

[sur-kuh] / ˈsɜr kə /


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It’s a personal history told from the vantage points of Washington and Baghdad circa 2003.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Navy Blue emerged from a depressive bout circa 2015, his freshman year of college.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Say what you will about the Democratic establishment circa 2026.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

It said archaeological trenches dug near the route of the underground cable "contained the rim of an inverted pottery vessel whose fabric suggests a Bronze Age collared urn circa 1700-1500BC, typically associated with human burial".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

He’d programmed it to look like a large suburban rec room, circa the late 1980s.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline


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