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crop circle

British

noun

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

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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

Essential Pineapple Dance Studios Update Last week they had aliens dancing in a field to the Prodigy's Out Of Space cut with shots of an earnest crop circle meeting in a pub.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2010

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