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Recent Examples of cirque
The hike to the cirque and back to the trailhead is six miles.
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Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2025
Throughout the run beneath the cirque of the Continental Divide, cruising up a gradual ascent towards a glacier-fed lake, my Overland Half Tight shorts remained comfortable.
—Lisa Jhung, Outside, 14 Aug. 2025
Ditch the giant Hula-Hoop in Vegas Even though Fremont Street’s pedestrian mall resembles a circus, the Las Vegas City Council does not permit such cirque contraptions as unicycles or Hula-Hoops wider than 4 feet.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
As the longest-running cirque holiday theatrical event, this annual tradition wraps a Broadway-style production around an infusion of contemporary circus arts.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2024
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Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2025
Throughout the run beneath the cirque of the Continental Divide, cruising up a gradual ascent towards a glacier-fed lake, my Overland Half Tight shorts remained comfortable.
—Lisa Jhung, Outside, 14 Aug. 2025
Ditch the giant Hula-Hoop in Vegas Even though Fremont Street’s pedestrian mall resembles a circus, the Las Vegas City Council does not permit such cirque contraptions as unicycles or Hula-Hoops wider than 4 feet.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
As the longest-running cirque holiday theatrical event, this annual tradition wraps a Broadway-style production around an infusion of contemporary circus arts.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cirque
Noun
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Stacy Jennings posted 2 hits, 2 RBIs and a walk while also dominating in the circle, allowing three hits and zero earned runs.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
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It had been mounted on a small platform, which bore a little icon of a pair of feet inside a backslash circle, as though stepping into a guillotine were every museumgoer’s wish.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Another everyday favorite—and one of the brand’s absolute bestsellers—is the Core ring.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
2 Apr. 2026
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Officials in Philadelphia have dismantled a massive drug ring operating out of a sham coffee shop, run largely by longtime, senior figures in the criminal world, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Sunday.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Earth’s sun is infected with a mysterious phenomena conjured by Weir called a Petrova line, a trail of alien cells called astrophage that are slowly consuming the fiery orb.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2026
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There, thousands of translucent orbs smaller than peas bob in the water column below the fishing dock.—
Marlowe Starling,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Cirque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cirque. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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