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In & at
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en-
endogenous
from withinidiom
hereunder
in
indoor
indoors
inner
innermost
inside
interior
interiority
inward
midst
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Examples of inner circle

inner circle
This did not alter the fact that the devil's henchmen (witches, hares and cats) also operated in the innercircle to plague people there.
The massive destruction of old sacred monuments can be better conceived as a ritual purification of the innercircle of unchristian, pagan elements.
More critically, however, status was a very good indicator of activity and innercircle size.
The change was sudden and unexpected outside the program's innercircle.
The outer band shows 'specialist' activities in each of the original four quadrants, and the innercircle shows corresponding 'generalist' opportunities.
The probability of beetles being recaptured in the innercircle was higher than in the outer circles because of the higher trap density.
It also appears that within the dozen there existed an innercircle whose influence was greater than that of the rest.
The role of court activity in revealing and probably establishing innercircle size is clear.
This meant that half of the people in the innercircle had direct relations with each other.
These sacred elements of the innercircle were joined together by periodically held ritual processions, and were thus moulded into a coherent whole.
The dialogue makes bureaucratic officials open to public scrutiny and makes elected officials subject to pressures from outside the innercircle of political elites.
The model acknowledges that change occurs more often in peripheral relationships than in the innercircle of close relationships.
As a member of the composer's innercircle, he would have mixed with other musicians and had the opportunity to discuss interpretative issues with them.
This cluster of individuals - contacts 1, 2, and 3 - are ego's innercircle.
For commoners, the frequency of interaction among the members of an innercircle was considerably more likely to correlate to high overall density.
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