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Recent Examples of circletHer dyed-blond-and-black circlets have a welcome element of scornfulness, a taunting of judgment.—Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026 The circlet featured a gold band that split off into two different sections, each with its own diamond design.—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 26 Dec. 2025 According to The Court Jeweller, the tall, platinum and gold circlet piece was created for Queen Mary in 1911, to be worn at a ceremony celebrating her and King George V's coronation as the new emperor and empress of India.—Meredith Kile, People.com, 4 July 2025 The origins of the symbolism of early headdresses, diadems, or circlets to denote authority have been lost, but the use of a crown in coronation was probably linked in origin to the coronation of popes.—Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2025 Instead the flowers in an insignia, the metal used to make a circlet, the weave of a piece of braided leather armor; any decorative detail is not mere ornamentation.—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025 But today most astronomers agree that these young-looking circlets are likely to be scarcely more than 100 million years old, the remnants of a multimoon destruction derby perhaps.—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024 Instead, you’ll be relegated to (gasp) manually pausing audio from the three-button control center on the right ear cup’s exterior circlet.—Ryan Waniata, WIRED, 28 Apr. 2023
The Princess of Wales, who was accompanied by her husband Prince William, embraced retro ringlets à la Sarah Jessica Parker or Julia Roberts.
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Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
23 Feb. 2026
Chopped with face-framing curtain bangs and curled into small (almost Shirley Temple-sized) ringlets, the singer’s hair is clearly a reference to her look from the song’s energetic music video.
Scientists have discovered that before black holes collide with neutron stars and merge, these extreme stellar remnants can swirl around each other in oval orbits rather than in circular orbits.
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
11 Mar. 2026
Diamond face shapes, similar to their oval counterparts, have narrower foreheads and chins, with the widest point of their faces being at the cheekbones.
Greig collected a pass from Shane Pinto at the bottom of the faceoff circle, moved the puck to his forehand and fired a shot past Lankinen midway through the second.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Mar. 2026
Because of her Colombian heritage, Zegler faced aggressive pushback from conservative circles, who thought the title role of Snow White should be played by a white woman.