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
“It’s a circus of miscalculation. Everything about it is wrong,” he said.
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026
A juggler too advanced for the circus, language’s great folk hero.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 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
There are those who have the means, and even some who do not but creatively manage anyway, to follow the circus from location to location.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Vocabulary lists containing circus
Ancient Rome - Introductory
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Florida's B.E.S.T Roots: circ, circum
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