circus
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The scandal fueled a media circus and was chronicled in a book, multiple podcasts, and the biographical mini-series "The Dropout" that starred Amanda Seyfried.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
That’s why he currently commands the center ring of the circus.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
‘The bond market is the greatest show on Earth, and the stock market is almost like a circus by comparison.’
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
There was a media circus and I couldn’t get a contract done, but I had to show up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
He said a circus just wasn’t a circus without monkeys.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
When you run low on bread, you need better circuses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
It will be bread and circuses, only with no bread.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2024
My second takeaway is that bread and circuses — the Roman phrase for distracting the populace with spectacle — was in full force.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
PeTA has been fighting to protect animals in circuses for over thirty years.
From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 23, 2024
They are considerably less flexible in their mental make-up than other animals that are commonly trained in circuses and zoos—sea Hons and chimpanzees, for example.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Vocabulary lists containing circus
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