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The California Military Academy spent a spectacular few of its early years, circa 1906, on the water at Santa Monica, leasing out the rambling Victorian pile that had once been the Arcadia Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

"Anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of leasehold knows that outright and immediate abolition of circa five million English and Welsh leases is almost certainly impossible."

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Manganese “is likely the key negative surprise, with our forecasts sitting circa 10% below consensus due to weather impacts at Gemco,” says Macquarie.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

So technically, I suppose the people of Zimbabwe, circa 2008, were the first trillionaires.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

He selected a speech from The Silver Cord, a play by Sidney Howard, first performed in 1926, but whose action took place in a New York drawing room circa 1905.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago