Examples of cyclic in a Sentence
Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
These glacial lakes tend to repeatedly fill and drain due to a cyclic opening and closing of a drainage path under the ice.
—Brianna Rick, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
The cyclic dimming of more distant stars would be too faint for Kepler to measure.
—Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2011
One explanation might be that amid the cyclic loyalty wars that have largely consumed the G.O.P. for the eight years since Trump began his first run for the Presidency, the supply of new ideas has dwindled.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
Its cyclic winning structure ensures that no choice uniquely outranks any other.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
The baby was healthy except for suffering from cyclic vomiting syndrome, Bundy said, unable to keep anything down except his mother's breast milk.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2023
Moth caterpillars at outbreak levels can strip millions of trees of their leaves in the height of the growing season, but these outbreaks are sporadic or cyclic; most years spongy moths are sparse and do no visible damage.
—Richard S. Ostfeld, STAT, 31 July 2023
The baby was healthy except for suffering from cyclic vomiting syndrome, Bundy said, unable to keep anything except his mother’s breast milk down.
—Andrew Selsky, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
New cyclic models get around the problem, Kinney and one of his colleagues have found, by requiring that the universe expands by a lot with each cycle.
—James Riordon, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
Over the past two decades, Chevron and other oil companies have earned millions harvesting oil from spills linked to high-pressure cyclic steaming, according to a recent investigation by The Desert Sun and ProPublica.
—Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
What the governor didn't directly address was what the state planned to do about the process of steam fracking or high-pressure cyclic steaming, in which scalding steam, without chemicals, is injected below ground to fracture formations.
—Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
Reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine, Krause says the cyclic and nonspecific symptoms of B. miyamotoi are problematic for doctors trying to identify the disease and for patients seeking treatment.
—Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2014
These cyclic dinucleotides are the second messengers that activate STING.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
Cyclopropenylidene is the second cyclic or closed-loop molecule detected at Titan; the first was benzene in 2003.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Oct. 2020
However, the moratorium only covers new permits for high-pressure cyclic steaming and does not affect oil companies with existing permits.
—Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
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Word History
Adjective
borrowed from French cyclique, going back to Middle French, "of a narrative cycle," borrowed from Latin cyclicus "of a cycle of epics" (Late Latin also, "circular, encyclopedic, recurrent [of a sickness, fever, etc.]), borrowed from Greek kyklikós "of a circle, circular, of a cycle of epics," from kýklos "circle, wheel" + -ikos -ic entry 1 — more at wheel entry 1
Noun
short for cyclic pitch control
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“Cyclic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cyclic. Accessed 28 Nov. 2023.
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