How to Use vicious circle in a Sentence

vicious circle

noun
  • We're trapped in a vicious circle.
  • Doing more with less is the way to stop this vicious circle of self-pressure.
    Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The plunge in yields risks spawning a vicious circle for the industry.
    Fortune, 27 Aug. 2019
  • That can start a vicious circle in which demand continues to fall as more people lose their jobs.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 13 May 2020
  • Yet, this scenario is no fait accompli and the means to break the vicious circle already lie in our hands.
    Paul Hockenos, CNN, 22 July 2022
  • With each wanting to be one step ahead of the others, all are caught in a vicious circle that is spinning out of control.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
  • These sales created a vicious circle that may now be exhausted.
    The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Experts worry the fires may be evidence of a vicious circle of climate change.
    The Economist, 7 Sep. 2020
  • This could lead to more arrests that, in turn, reinforce the algorithm in a vicious circle.
    Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Many might be all the rage at one point only to enter a vicious circle and ultimately collapse.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 12 May 2022
  • But fears about finances and the health of her parents, who live in Ohio, can create a vicious circle of torment.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2020
  • When the moist forest canopy becomes so dry, and the savannah spreads, that fires propagate and expand in a vicious circle?
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 4 Sep. 2019
  • This vicious circle means that for electric-plane design, adding batteries to boost range isn't a viable strategy.
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2016
  • At the same time, their focus on attracting healthy people and avoiding sick people is creating a vicious circle.
    Robert Reich, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 July 2017
  • This is the vicious circle, presumably an iron logic that condemns us all to ever more unbearable summers.
    Paul Hockenos, CNN, 22 July 2022
  • The sneaky way is to let inflation do its thing having stopped printing new money and watch inflation grind to a halt as no new money drives its vicious circle.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • That is a vicious circle that Lilium says its prototypes will avoid with new battery technologies.
    Rohit Jaggi, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2022
  • In a vicious circle, the more the local officials lied about their output, the higher the central government set the quotas.
    Helen Raleigh, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
  • This vicious circle can’t be broken by legislation, and the technology that set it in motion isn’t going away.
    Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • And that vicious circle does imperil the future of free-market capitalism.
    Judy Shelton, WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • So, Zach continues the vicious circle after going to the hospital.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • The utility of a transaction is what drives the ceiling of the transaction cost when the channel is full and appears to drive a vicious circle of value and price.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Powell’s chief concern is a vicious circle of spiraling inflation leading to rising wage demands that feed through to yet higher prices.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Perhaps in telling this tale Smith held out the hope that the best of monarchs, like the best of emperors, Augustus, could break this vicious circle.
    Iain Murray, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • As land prices and wine prices become locked in a vicious circle, each forcing the other higher and higher, even purchasing wine becomes nonviable for many.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
  • When Zelensky won in a landslide victory, many Ukrainians hoped that the vicious circle would be broken.
    From Cnn Opinion, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Some never escape the vicious circle of debt and irregularity.
    Aritz Parra, Star Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • This leads to a vicious circle, with ever-higher levies being imposed on those Greeks who can’t or don’t want to evade taxes, hampering economic growth.
    Nektaria Stamouli, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
  • They were forced into the vicious circle of selling gilts to meet capital requirements, which caused more weakness, and additional margin calls.
    Jon Markman, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The snow and rain create a vicious circle, forming an insulating layer that speeds defrosting underground.
    Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019

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