inner circle

noun

: a small group of people who lead a government or an organization or who are close to its leader

The President has an inner circle of advisers.

Examples of inner circle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Since then, Kloss has reportedly rejoined Swift’s inner circle. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 14 July 2026

D’Souza established himself in Thiel’s inner circle, which comprised mostly men, most of whom were gay and most of whom were tech founders or venture capitalists. — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Completing the quintet is Gigi (Gemma Chan), an online follower and airline pilot who’s somehow worked her way into Hollis’s real-life inner circle. — Alison Herman, Variety, 9 July 2026

Attorney Magdalena Gebhard, who represented a victim in a previous Berlin trial that led to a conviction, said there was an inner circle of eight perpetrators but that some of the chat groups had up to 50,000 members. — ABC News, 8 July 2026

Rhymes for inner circle

• encircle
• tubercle
• cercle
• preopercle
• semicircle