the loop

noun

: a group of people who know about or have influence or control over something

She wants to stay in the loop as these changes are being considered.

He claims that he was kept out of the loop when the decision to sell the company was being made.

Examples of the loop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Instead of paying an actor or voiceover artist to deliver the ad’s slogan, Royal Mail commissioned the ad’s producers to cut the human from the loop. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026

The storm’s bright white clouds appear in the loop as the satellite captures the moment of this morning’s sunrise. — Kate S. Petersen, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026

Over time, the system also learns from these interactions to develop a broader understanding of the user’s aesthetic identity, while still keeping people in the loop and giving them control. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026

Data must move quickly enough to close the loop between sensing, inference and action, with immediate inference at the edge and model updates, simulation and fleet-wide learning in centralized systems. — Richard Clough, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for the loop

• newsgroup
• recoup
• regroup
• subgroup
• workgroup
• coop
• coupe
• croup
• droop
• drupe
• dupe
• group