the loop

noun

: a group of people who know about or have influence or control over something

She wants to stay in the loop as these changes are being considered.

He claims that he was kept out of the loop when the decision to sell the company was being made.

Examples of the loop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

To my understanding, the big scary thing of the moment seems to be recursive self-improvement, which is the point where the model needs no human in the loop. — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026

What captures the attention of the American public and provides the support for what is a quite extraordinary engineering and scientific expense to explore the universe is the human in the loop. — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026

Scale through collaboration between people and agents rather than treating autonomy as a race to remove humans from the loop. — Rajesh Gharpure, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Whether System 0 closes the loop will depend on how many jackets actually return, how much nylon survives recycling and where everything else goes. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for the loop

• newsgroup
• recoup
• regroup
• subgroup
• workgroup
• coop
• coupe
• croup
• droop
• drupe
• dupe
• group