circling back
Looping to revisit
Circling back means returning to a topic, task, or person after a delay: Let me circle back to that question, I'll circle back with you next week.
The phrase evokes the image of completing a loop to revisit something.
It's become corporate jargon for following up, often satirized as empty meeting-speak when no actual follow-up occurs.
- reviewingExamining something again
- follow-upSubsequent action on something
- touching baseBrief informal contact
- iterationRepeated procedural pass
- readdressingAttending to something again
recurrence · coming around · touchpoint · reevaluation · reconsideration · revisitation · picking up where we left off · reconnecting · callback · hindsight · feedback loop · return · checking in · orbiting · clarification · retrospection · looping · tabling
- revisiting actionsretrying, redoing, reviewing, rereading, rewatching
circling backmoving forward
Continuing toward a goal
pressing on · forging ahead · pressing ahead · pushing through · pushing on
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