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vicious circle

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Either the peacemakers break the vicious circle, or the circle will become more vicious.

White captures how lonely people get trapped in a vicious circle, shunning social events because being alone is more comfortable.

The vicious circle was hard to break, for the Government was not strong or steady enough to repress all impartially.

A vicious circle is thus established and the demand for the stuff increases.

He has acted wisely in doing so; for this impossibility is based entirely on a vicious circle of reasoning.

But how is it that M. Montalembert does not see that he is placing himself in a vicious circle?

Who does not see that this is to define a thing by itself, a vicious circle?

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vicious circle, such as: chain reaction, vicious cycle, catch-22, causal nexus, chain of circumstances, and circularity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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