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circs

British

/ sɜːks /

plural noun

informal circumstances See circumstance

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Appreciate the operational circs are very different, but surely there was another way?

From The Guardian

The circs, as Bertie Wooster would put it, were quite banal.

From The New Yorker

I said to Octavian, We are a little reduced in our Circs.

From Literature

But there is certainly a 50% suspicion that he gets the joke, and that would feel most refreshing in the circs.

From The Guardian

And, in some cases, only a few more from wondering whether that may, perhaps, have been the best outcome in the circs.

From The Guardian

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