vicious circle
Example Sentences
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This then weakens activity and prices in what can become a vicious circle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
The business squeeze has in turn led many establishments to raise entry charges and drinks prices, setting off a vicious circle where many young people and stalwarts of the scene feel priced out.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
It’s a vicious circle of rats abandoning ship.
From Slate • Jul. 10, 2025
As Fico lay in hospital, outgoing President Zuzana Caputova, one of his staunchest opponents, pleaded to “step out of the vicious circle of hatred and mutual accusations.”
From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024
It was then that she understood the vicious circle of Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s little gold fishes.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
