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vicious cycle

NOUN
  1. one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first

How To Use vicious cycle In A Sentence

  • In recent decades our planning system has got stuck in a vicious cycle of nimbyism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet the flight of capital could create a vicious cycle.
  • So the vicious cycle continues: we create daughters who have difficulty articulating their own needs and perceptions.
  • To help explain this apparent paradox, we propose that numerous vicious cycles are acting as ‘accelerators’ that maintain and even increase overweight.
  • In many cities, they sank into a vicious cycle of drugs, crime, teenage pregnancy, and welfare dependency.
  • Yesterday's announcement suggests that the vicious cycle has turned into a virtuous circle. Times, Sunday Times
  • A vicious cycle emerges where prices are slashed and producers try to out-discount each other.
  • Over-reliance on such drugs can actually create a vicious cycle of chronic head pain.
  • We cannot continue this vicious cycle of violence and counterviolence, action and reaction, retaliation here and there. CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2003
  • Dance medicine specialists tell me that it's common for people suffering from arthritis to get caught up in a vicious cycle of pain, weakness, and loss of motion.
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