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circle
noun as in orb, loop, round figure
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in group of close friends, associates
Example Sentences
Unbeknownst to him, there was someone in his circle of friends paying extra close attention to Paul.
Von Spakovsky is highly influential in conservative circles.
It’s unclear how ancestral Wichita people used council circles.
In his 2005 book, Inside the Neolithic Mind, Lewis-Williams argues that a similar principle might explain other Neolithic monuments and cult buildings found in the Near East, such as the stone circles of Göbekli Tepe.
Inner groups of simulated stones obscured and scattered sounds reflected off the outer sarsen circle, blocking echo formation.
So, Linklater just won Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle.
Julio had come full circle and had returned to Cuba as a tourist in his own country.
The girls ran in the same circle (Palmolive was also in the Flowers of Romance) and the group was looking for a guitarist.
The RSD Facebook page, and all the local RSD groups, known as “inner circle,” have been switched to private.
Not before long, I think about four cops went up to the circle and just grabbed a few of the people from behind.
Wharton and Louis had withdrawn their hands at the same instant they caught his eye; and the Duke turned into the circle.
It was the conversation of every circle; and discussed according to the dispositions, or views of the speakers.
We (the officers) were sitting in a circle round the general and Alcalde, both of whom appeared uneasy and anxious.
His books were read in our homes, often aloud to the family circle by paterfamilias, and moved us to laughter or tears.
A child's attempt to represent a man appears commonly to begin by drawing a sort of circle for the front view of the head.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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