as in circus
a place of uproar or confusion
the house has been a three-ring circus ever since the kids got back from summer camp
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As of right now, Zipolite is less accessible than other popular Mexican beach destinations — than, say, the three-ring circus that has subsumed Cancún.
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Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
Indeed, the three-ring circus (the packed venues, rows of photographers crowding street corners, and heavy traffic) often associated with New York Fashion Week will presumably be absent.
—Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Aug. 2020
Feld shut down the three-ring circus in 2017 after a 146-year run.
—Jay Handelman, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
But a general decline in newspaper readership and the recession of the 1990s, followed by a three-ring circus of corporate leadership at The Times, would be the undoing of the paper’s Orange County edition.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
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Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
Indeed, the three-ring circus (the packed venues, rows of photographers crowding street corners, and heavy traffic) often associated with New York Fashion Week will presumably be absent.
—Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Aug. 2020
Feld shut down the three-ring circus in 2017 after a 146-year run.
—Jay Handelman, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
But a general decline in newspaper readership and the recession of the 1990s, followed by a three-ring circus of corporate leadership at The Times, would be the undoing of the paper’s Orange County edition.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
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