vicious cycle
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Those changes can then intensify pain and make daily activities more difficult, creating a difficult-to-break "vicious cycle."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
Weeks of unending heat soon turned into a vicious cycle of drought, storms and wildfires.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
But investor appetite in lending the US government money through buying bonds is "diminishing", Swanson warns, creating a "vicious" cycle, requiring the government to offer ever higher returns to keep investors purchasing its debt.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
A certain level of immigration is also desirable to avoid population declines in aging Western nations, which could spark a vicious cycle of ever fewer workers and falling consumer demand, Manning and others argue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
So there it was, my own vicious cycle.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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