virtuous circle

noun

a beneficial cycle of events or incidents, each having a positive effect on the next.

First recorded in 1900–05; after vicious cycle

And he charted how that then leads to higher wages, more lending, and more spending in an economic “virtuous circle.”

Being snappy made them happy, and being happy made them snappy; establishing what is known to philosophers as the virtuous circle.

Religion makes for health and health promotes religion, and the virtuous circle is completed.

The more he was asked the more he remembered, and so on in a virtuous circle.

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