in circles is an adverb meaning "without making progress". It carries one recorded sense.
without making progress
“the candidates talked in circles”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for in circles come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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