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Example Sentences

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Whatever the reasons, space stocks are melting up in a scenario that might remind investors of EVs circa 2020 and 2021.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Look at him in the photograph here, circa 1977, the year he won the America’s Cup helming the 12-meter sloop, Courageous.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 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

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

From Salon • Apr. 4, 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