How to Use closed loop in a Sentence

closed loop

noun
  • The very nature of a closed loop, private club runs the risk of sleeping with your cousin.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • At least 50 cases have been found within the closed loop since Jan. 4.
    Aditi Sangal, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Or is the book a closed loop, its end a return to its beginning?
    Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • But the closed loop system suffered from the rest of the city being in complete lockdown.
    Grady McGregor, Fortune, 26 July 2022
  • The medical team set the T-cells aside to freeze while the rest of the blood circulates back into the patient in a closed loop.
    Ilana Yurkiewicz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Rippon is Zooming with Rolling Stone from his room inside the closed loop.
    Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Many more closed loop efforts were showcased at the MRS meeting.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The thought occurs that this story could end up as part of one of Jarmusch’s collages, a neat closed loop.
    New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The question arose every day or two as the early stages of his recovery traced a closed loop.
    Martin Kuz, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Such a system would use the same radiative panels to cool fluid in a closed loop.
    Joseph Dussault, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The closed loop is designed to keep the virus from spreading to the rest of China, which has tried to eradicate covid-19 from its population.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The number of people inside the bubble — called the closed loop by organizers — isn’t known.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Every person in the bubble — or closed loop, in Olympics jargon — is required to have their throat swabbed each day to test for the coronavirus.
    Nathan Fenno Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Of the new cases, seven involved athletes or team officials, three of which were inside the closed loop.
    Adrienne Vogt, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The process was intuitive and ongoing, like dream-work, and less like a closed loop than a spiral, always corkscrewing ahead.
    Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • Reporters are prohibited from crossing the street from the hockey rink to the curling site because the road in between isn’t within the closed loop.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Maybe the result of this closed loop will be as wondrous in its architecture as in its aspirations.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 May 2021
  • The closed loop system left Foxconn’s workers exposed to the virus and lacking basic necessities, which drove them to flee.
    Byyvonne Lau, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The gas flows back out through a different channel, then recondenses and passes back through the device again, forming a closed loop system.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2022
  • If our universe is a closed loop, curled up like a ball, its entropy can never decrease, meaning the universe will never return to an earlier point.
    Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The saltwater cools the titanium plate, which in turn cools the freshwater, which is in a closed loop and flows continuously through guestrooms and elsewhere.
    Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The local authorities last month greenlighted the arrival of 105 LG employees from Korea on a charter flight to work in a closed loop, the announcement said.
    Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Now, the suits’ life support systems are completely autonomous from the ship’s, a closed loop that won’t be affected if the cabin is compromised.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Being in a closed loop, there's actually three different sites.
    Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Within the other closed loop, that of the country’s media and propaganda ecosystem, China triumphed.
    New York Times, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Anyone who is not vaccinated has to quarantine in Beijing for 21 days before being allowed in the closed loop system.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2022
  • To drive the energy transition and reduce CO2 emission, the energy system will be a closed loop with all CO2 captured and returned into the supply chain or sequestered.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • This data can then feed back to form a closed loop of continuous enhancements and integration of the previous nine areas.
    Ghufran Shah, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The plant, known as Gigafactory, is running in a closed loop fashion, in which employees live and work inside the factory premises, people familiar with the matter said.
    Yang Jie, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
  • That’s possible because a customer is selling the coins to another Bakkt member over its proprietary network, so the transaction stays in that closed loop and avoids that public network.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2021

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