See vicious circle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1961 November, “Talking of Trains: London Transport in 1960”, in Trains Illustrated, page 656:",
"text": "Meanwhile street congestion grows worse and the vicious circle tightens of private motor-cars which impede L.T.E. buses in Central London and of exasperated bus travellers who therefore take to using their own cars.",
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"code": "th",
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"sense": "situation in which the response to a problem creates another problem",
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "situation in which the response to a problem creates another problem",
"word": "kısır döngü"
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"sense": "fallacy",
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"word": "ciorcal lochtach"
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