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  come full circle

  When something “comes full circle,” it completes a cycle, returns to its beginnings: “The novelist's vision of human life has come full circle — from optimism to pessimism and back to optimism again.”
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  Also, go full circle. Complete an entire cycle; return to the original position or condition. For example, After a whole year of debate we have come full circle on this issue. Shakespeare may have originated this expression in King Lear (5:3): “The wheel is come full circle.” A 20th-century idiom with a similar meaning is what goes around comes around, as in I knew if I helped her now, she would help me later—what goes around comes around.

come full circle

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1. When something “comes full circle,” it completes a cycle, returns to its beginnings: “The novelist's vision of human life has come full circle — from optimism to pessimism and back to optimism again.”

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full circle, come Idioms  

1. Also, go full circle. Complete an entire cycle; return to the original position or condition. For example, After a whole year of debate we have come full circle on this issue. Shakespeare may have originated this expression in King Lear (5:3): “The wheel is come full circle.” A 20th-century idiom with a similar meaning is what goes around comes around, as in I knew if I helped her now, she would help me later—what goes around comes around.

2. see full circle.

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come full circle

The price of the benchmark index may have come full circle over the past five months, but the market beneath it looks quite different from earlier this year.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

The Lithuanian's career will come full circle, some 20 years since he made his first steps into coaching with Manchester United Soccer Schools.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

“I’m extremely proud my individual journey will come full circle now,” he said before the tournament started.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Now, seven years later, Owens’ story has come full circle.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

Besides, the game of name tag was about to come full circle: By the early 1980s, a group of businesspeople decided that the name Sing Sing might attract tourists.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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