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Idiom

come full circle

Meaning

To make a complete change or reform.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“My fashion style has come full circle to what I wore as a teenager.”

“After years of working in big cities, she returned to her small hometown, feeling that her life had come full circle.”

“The political debate has come full circle, returning to the same fundamental questions about individual liberty that defined the movement decades ago.”

Examples

simple

“My fashion style has come full circle to what I wore as a teenager.”

contextual

“After years of working in big cities, she returned to her small hometown, feeling that her life had come full circle.”

complex

“The political debate has come full circle, returning to the same fundamental questions about individual liberty that defined the movement decades ago.”

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