"in a time loop" is a phrase that is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used in science fiction to describe a situation where a person or group of people is stuck in a loop of events that repeat themselves. For example, "After getting stuck in a time loop, the characters had to find a way to break the cycle and move forward."
The crew are stuck in a time loop.
It also put me in a time loop.
A man stuck in a time loop, fated to relive the same action endlessly?
The jumbled way that the book is written can suggest that we are in a time loop.
Trapped in a time loop, he lives the same day over and over – until he amends it and himself.
You may think you've read this news before but no, you're not stuck in a time loop like the luckless weatherman Phil Connors.
SG-1 would encounter a world whose scientists work feverishly on preventing an imminent apocalypse, but after being unable to find a solution in time, they initiate a time loop that would trap the SG-1 team.
There are a number of movies that take similar conceits to Groundhog Day's: In 2014's Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise's character gets sent back in a loop every time he dies in battle; in Netflix's ARQ from last year, an engineer invents a machine that causes a time loop; and then there's the upcoming YA book adaptation Before I Fall, where a teenager repeatedly relives the day she dies.
There are a number of movies that take similar conceits to Groundhog Day's: In 2014's Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise's character gets sent back in a loop every time he dies in battle; in Netflix's ARQ from last year, an engineer invents a machine that causes a time loop; and then there's the upcoming YA book adaptation Before I Fall, where a teenager repeatedly relives the day she dies.
Hamburg look trapped in a time-loop padded with nothing but misery and existentialist dread.
Groundhog Day, which starred Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, follows the egotistical grump of weatherman Phil Connors as he gets stuck in a time-loop and ends up reliving the same day over and over again, reporting on the same rodent-based-meteorological event on repeat.
