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crop circle

British  

noun

  1. any of various patterns, usually wholly or partly consisting of ring shapes, formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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John Lundberg started making crop circles while at art school, in the early 1990s, simply "to see what was humanly possible - and if you did make a crop circle, what would happen".

From BBC May 12, 2022

Varun proposed last year after whisking Anisha away on a helicopter ride, and popped the question with a crop circle in a field of wheat.

From Fox News Oct. 3, 2019

The crop circle, intended as a low-cost marketing ploy, did generate publicity.

From Forbes Jan. 9, 2014

Lucy Pringle took this photo of a crop circle in Avebury, Wiltshire.

From Children's BBC Mar. 20, 2013

From a hillock you watch walkers winding trance-like, as if creating a crop circle.

From The Guardian Aug. 25, 2012

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