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The poems, which take the ring-around-the-rosy children’s game as a starting point for an exploration of male-female relationships, show Atwood’s early aptitude for the unflinching, visceral metaphor.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 10, 2017

Stages in the ring-around-the-rosy: � Last October, Britain, with much fanfare, called an Empire conference to lay down postwar air policies.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the ring-around-the-rosy scheme went askew in St. Paul, where a bank refused to honor Ehlers' signature.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Which is more than I can say I'm doing," Phil grumbled; "this ring-around-the-rosy business is played out, and I've just got to find some way to stop it."

From Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge by Boone, Silas K.

Larkin jockeyed for position, but in that moment when his eye was taken from the mad game of ring-around-the-rosy, McGee demonstrated that the skill was not equally placed.

From Aces Up by Clarke, Covington