How to Use virtuous circle in a Sentence

virtuous circle

noun
  • 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
  • Maybe the virtuous circle of Prime simply is more powerful in the U.S. than anywhere else.
    Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
  • 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 app, the passengers, and his strict frugality aligned in a virtuous circle.
    Lauren Smiley, Wired, 22 June 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In recent decades, that virtuous circle has turned vicious.
    Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The presence of large volumes of high-quality data inevitably leads to a virtuous circle.
    Joe Gagnon, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Foxtrot’s hybrid model supports both parts of the business in a virtuous circle.
    Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 19 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • But that virtuous circle is weaker in forests dominated by the coconut palms.
    Kenneth R. Weiss, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And that becomes a virtuous circle of input received and output delivered.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The virtuous circle between developers and players is tighter in Web3.
    Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This creates a virtuous circle: the more employees feel taken care of, connected to each other, and love their jobs, the more the company benefits through high workplace engagement, performance, and retention.
    Jim Purcell, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Florida, Tennessee and Texas don’t have income taxes and have experienced this virtuous circle in recent years.
    Allysia Finley, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Supporting others creates a virtuous circle of good actions.
    Rafael Dos Santos, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • That holds out the possibility of a better, more virtuous circle of economic development.
    Richard Florida and Adam Ozimek, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • By licensing big-data tech to other companies, the insurance giant creates a virtuous circle in which Ping An collects still more data through the relationships, enabling it to improve its models and thereby attract more clients.
    Fortune, 22 July 2019
  • Cheer powered the growth of capitalism, too, by boosting productivity (the economist Adam Smith identified a virtuous circle in which higher wages led to cheerfulness and thus more diligent work) and fueling the consumer economy.
    Ian Beacock, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022

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