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IN CIRCLES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does in circles mean?
• IN CIRCLES (adverb)
The adverb IN CIRCLES has 1 sense:
1. without making progress
Familiarity information: IN CIRCLES used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without making progress
Context example:
the candidates talked in circles
Context examples
In other experiments, they made mice walk in circles by injecting a drug that mimics morphine into the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a region that controls motivation and addiction.
(Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons, NIH)
The bear wandered, now this way and now that, doubling back and forth and crossing his trail in circles, so that at the end he was near where Keesh had first come upon him.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
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