circus
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As she drifts through town, feeling suddenly shorn of her identity, she comes across a traveling circus and is somehow taken on as a volunteer for the sawing-in-half trick, which involves hiding inside a box.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
"The circus continues," Hack told BBC World Service.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
“It’s a circus of miscalculation. Everything about it is wrong.”
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026
Despite the media circus, there are moments where the streets surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s home do, indeed, resemble an ordinary neighborhood grappling with a tragedy.
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026
Papa thanked him for the cards and said, “We’re poor folks and don’t get out of these hills very often; but next year when your circus comes to Tulsa, we’ll try to be there.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Vocabulary lists containing circus
Ancient Rome - Introductory
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Florida's B.E.S.T Roots: circ, circum
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