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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Abused children often grow up to abuse their own children - it's a vicious circle .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I had to destroy, once and for all, the vicious circle of poverty and economic stagnation.
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Many are in a vicious circle of mismanagement and underfunding, as governments, fed up with incompetence, squeeze their cash.
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Poor care in turn begat defensiveness and so on, in a vicious circle .
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The whole sorry affair became a vicious circle .
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Think of the vicious circle of hyperventilation.
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This vicious circle is more precisely specified in Chapter 7.