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  • The doctors have called these spells of unresponsiveness seizures, mini-strokes, pseudo heart attacks, but it is likely the three-ringed circus in her brain has something to do with it.

    The Dying Tradition 2010

  • The three-ringed circus of liberal media bias cryptozoology is nothing new for Goldberg.

    Karl Frisch: Bernard Goldberg's "Bias" Against the Facts 2009

  • When the pile grows unwieldy, I transcribe my nuggets of possibility into a three-ringed notebook.

    Earl Pomerantz: Milestone 2009

  • In the three-ringed circus of American politics, this signals quite a few things: first, Obama is much bigger news than George Bush and can easily steal a headline out from under the president at one of the Oval Office's few remaining events: (lame duckism was never so lame).

    Giles Slade: A New Obama Sweeps Clean 2008

  • The pencil-printed letter, in the unmistakable hand of a child, was contained on a single piece of lined, three-ringed binder paper.

    Peace, order and good government, eh?: December 2008 Archives 2008

  • Morels, inside the three-ringed by faux trolly tracks circus that is shopping chaos known as The Grove, is a bistro and serves food food that requires proletariat forks.

    Monsieur Marcel - Korean-French Women DO Get Fat 2007

  • Morels, inside the three-ringed by faux trolly tracks circus that is shopping chaos known as The Grove, is a bistro and serves food food that requires proletariat forks.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Every year, as soon as the outcome of the Super Bowl is no longer in doubt, out come the magazines, the STATS Inc. books, the tattered three-ringed binder from last season.

    USATODAY.com - 'Tis the (pre)season to think about fantasy 2001

  • Finally Richard managed to obtain the attention of one of the three-ringed giants.

    The Garden of Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1992

  • After his parade through the conference halls of the avian realm, Richard had been taken to a small room where the three-ringed avian and two of its associates, each large creatures as well with three red neck rings, watched him day and night for about a week.

    The Garden of Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1992

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