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• Return to a past position or situation, especially in a way considered to be inevitable.

  ‘the region is being forced to come full circle and repeat the errors of its tragic past’

  More example sentences

  • ‘now it seems the wheel has turned full circle—the western is being revived’
  • ‘Her career came full circle with a return to cycling.’
  • ‘He has essentially come full circle, returning to the place where it all began some 17 years ago.’
  • ‘Mrs Glendinning has come full circle by returning to the school she attended as a pupil.’
  • ‘Our author's life has now come full circle with his return some years ago to his native Hampshire.’
  • ‘The exhibition comes full circle here, returning to the idea with which it begins.’
  • ‘From his arrival in Perth to his inevitable departure, our conversation has come full circle.’
  • ‘In some ways modern societies are turning full circle and returning to the varied rituals of the past.’
  • ‘Things seem to be turning full circle and I'm not sure I want to live through some of those past episodes again.’
  • ‘Warehouse conversions are now coming full circle and being turned back into warehouses again.’
  • ‘I ran a piece in the magazine looking at coffee houses coming full circle back to their 18th century roots as business places.’