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circled back

circled back is the simple past and past participle of circle back.

Meaning of circle back

Verb

circle back (third-person singular simple present circles back, present participle circling back, simple past and past participle circled back)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To return to a previous location or state; to come back to.
    • I have to circle back to the office to pick up a few things.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive, corporate jargon) To return to a previous topic of discussion; to bring up again.
    • We're out of time right now, but we can circle back on this tomorrow.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see circle, back.
    • When it was released from its cage Monday, the bird gracefully circled back, almost in a half moon, before disappearing into the sky.2019 September 19, “Into the blue yonder: Bald eagle soars away after rehab stay”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 09 May 2017

Questions about circled back

What is circled back the simple past and past participle of?
Circled back is the simple past and past participle of circle back.

Words near circled back in the dictionary

  1. circle-strafe
  2. circle-strafed
  3. circle-strafes
  4. circle-strafing
  5. circled
  6. circled back
  7. circled the drain
  8. circled the field
  9. circled the wagons
  10. circled up
  11. circleish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: circled back (page history and authors); circle back (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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