How to Use virtuous circle in a Sentence

virtuous circle

noun
  • But if there is no virtuous circle, there will be a vicious one.
    — Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
  • Proof of work creates the vicious/virtuous circle of a cost/price arms race, but ‘proof of stake’ not so much.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But that virtuous circle is weaker in forests dominated by the coconut palms.
    — Kenneth R. Weiss, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2020
  • This leads to a virtuous circle for Amazon and a vicious cycle for the dwindling margins of the drug store world.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Foxtrot’s hybrid model supports both parts of the business in a virtuous circle.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The app, the passengers, and his strict frugality aligned in a virtuous circle.
    — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 22 June 2021
  • As the workplace becomes more diverse, hiring teams should inevitably follow suit and a virtuous circle will take shape.
    — Doug Lodder, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The presence of large volumes of high-quality data inevitably leads to a virtuous circle.
    — Joe Gagnon, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • This change affects not only Alex but the people around him in a virtuous circle that is the opposite of a shame spiral.
    — Gayle Forman, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
  • Less Dilution Through an investor prism, there is something of a virtuous circle here.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And the data will also create a virtuous circle to feed into planning for its more exclusive fashion lines.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • And that becomes a virtuous circle of input received and output delivered.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • And as the number of subscribers, and therefore viewers, goes up so does the price for ads, creating a virtuous circle in which growing one begets the other.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
  • That was a virtuous circle while inflation is low and the Fed could step in whenever volatility jumped—the broad trend of the past 30 years.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 1 June 2021
  • The company’s mission creates a virtuous circle that engages not just its customers but its employees and partners.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • And so a virtuous circle was established, according to Purdue and its president.
    — Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The virtuous circle between developers and players is tighter in Web3.
    — Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Optimally, a virtuous circle can be created where loud partiers are supplanted by museum-goers with more money to spend—or so the thinking goes.
    — Paul Tullis, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The virtuous circle has enabled Tesla to raise about $14 billion over the last decade, supporting the electric-car maker through countless ups and downs.
    — Gabrielle Coppola, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • With more laptops running ARM, there’s a virtuous circle for developers to code to more users, which means more users will see their apps on the latest hardware.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • That holds out the possibility of a better, more virtuous circle of economic development.
    — Richard Florida and Adam Ozimek, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • This virtuous circle brought the internet to the masses and created cloud computing, search engines, the iPhone, Uber and same-day delivery.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
  • That would imply a virtuous circle, in which prosperity begets investment, which begets more prosperity and makes the economy more productive in the long term — a rising tide that lifts all boats.
    — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2022
  • This virtuous circle reduces the labor pool, which can lead companies to pay less attention to skills and initial training in favor of hiring more automatically.
    — Philippe Riveron, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Some of those founders become angel investors, seeding the next batch of startups, creating a virtuous circle not unlike the one that built Silicon Valley.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2019
  • Alloy’s foundational principal of crafting a virtuous circle of books, TV shows and movies has not changed, even if more of its characters are of drinking and voting age.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Florida, Tennessee and Texas don’t have income taxes and have experienced this virtuous circle in recent years.
    — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • That's the result of a virtuous circle where better, cheaper batteries expand the market, which in turn drives investments that produce further improvements in cost and performance.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Still, much like the rebound on Wall Street, confidence from the C-Suite could have an impact on the real economy, creating a virtuous circle.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 May 2020
  • Through it all, the virtuous circle keeps expanding, bringing insights from each reactive and proactive element of the cybersecurity program to inform all others.
    — Manoj Srivastava, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025

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