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How to use the word circa in a Sentence?

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Any confidence the world had in our country is now, ummm, gone, saigon, circa 1975, steroids, and former defense secretary and CIA director Leon Panetta, yeah, rightly calling it Biden’s Bay of Pigs and thanks to the actions of our derelict, low-functioning president … the absolute worst-case scenario has been playing out before our eyes.

Chris Cuomo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

i, ras cardo created reggae in my 1962 trench town yard. I have the details of all those present at the time. I did say:- reggae is rastafarian prophecy and message giving. It aims to unite people in a loving way so we can stop all this hatred and this killing stuff. I think the music industry is trying to take that spirit out of it and really secularize it- told to the -atlanta journal news writer- steve dollar. Posted in his article-more than a beat, reggae is his belief- inside the arts. Circa 1990's- people in the arts.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

The issue of water availability (or the lack of it) has often been mentioned by researchers who work on Rapa Nui/Easter Island, when we started to examine the details of the hydrology, we began to notice that freshwater access and statue location were tightly linked together. It wasnt obvious when walking around--with the water emerging at the coast during low tide, one doesnt necessarily see obvious indications of water. File photo - Statues at Anakena Beach, Easter Island, Chile. (Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Places without ahu/moai showed no freshwater, he added. The pattern was striking and surprising in how consistent it was. Researchers had already identified groundwater discharge in coastal areas as a key factor in the statues placement on Easter Islands coast. In the latest stage of the research, experts examined how the availability of freshwater in certain areas was linked to the methods and means of building the statues. EASTER ISLANDS ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WAS NOT DESTROYED BY WARFARE, EXPERTS SAY Around 900 statues, or moai, are dotted around Easter Island. Circa 1955: Two ancient statues of uncertain origin on Easter Island, in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Richard Harrington/Three Lions/Getty Images).

Carl Lipo

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

That is standard Lost Cause ideology circa 1890 to 1910, this man, that language right there, is the standard defense of The Lost Cause built over the period of decades as an ideology explaining confederate defeat, but also as a racial ideology.

David Blight

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Commodity sector borrowings are still in demand. Whilst we have seen some headwinds recently, we are still closing out between 10-12 deals this year from the commodities sector excluding M&A related deals. Volumes raised yearly on the average have been circa $ 12 - $ 14 billion for past few years( if M&A financings are excluded) and we expect the same for 2015.

Boey Yin Chong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960

John Lennon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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