"circs" meaning in English

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          "text": "I'm covered as far as iPod and automobile go as I have a solid library of music I've ripped from CD and purchased. But music throughout the house is trickier. And, under normal circs, subscription is no answer.",
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          "ref": "2010 December 16, Julie Burchill, “Spare us these pampered protesters who riot in defence of their privilege”, in The Independent:",
          "text": "Charlie Gilmour's father is an old Etonian poet; his stepfather a superannuated rock star worth around £78m whose most famous ditty insisted, somewhat amusingly under the circs, that \"We don't need no education.\"",
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          "text": "All this royal pomp and circs and magnificence and significance and sacred music and you are, quite rightly, your unaffected modern English selves.",
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          "text": "\"They were trapped in circs that they didn't know anything about, that they could not have foreseen […]",
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