Inner circle

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The term "inner circle" may refer to:

• Inner Circle, a musical group known for the song "Bad Boys", which is the theme song for the television series COPS
• The Inner Circle, a 1991 film about KGB officer Ivan Sanchin
• The Inner Circle, a 2004 album by Evergrey
• The Inner Circle, a 2004 novel by T. C. Boyle about Alfred Kinsey
• The Inner Circle, a secret organization in Max Payne
• The Inner Circle, an early name for the central circuit route of the London Underground that is now known as the Circle Line
• Inner Circle, an Anarchy Online gaming guild.

• friendship networks, where "inner circle" may describe the closest of friends

• a group of individuals who are given special status, especially in:
  • religious and quasi-religious groups (especially cults and gnostic movements)
  • secret societies
  • organized crime (especially gangs and mafia-type groups)
  • information marketing, though normally not worth the expense, usually among internet salespeople and their customers as some kind of supposed benefit

• esoteric teaching, knowledge that is confined to an inner group

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