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adjective

Definition of bimonthlynext
as in monthly

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noun

as in quarterly

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Recent Examples of bimonthly
Adjective
Times 26 weeks in a year times the 5 years since the lockdown equals 130 bimonthly haircuts at $30 each or $3,900 saved. — Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 8 Mar. 2026 The South Hills Interfaith Movement, known as SHIM, recently opened food lockers so people can get supplies outside of their bimonthly distribution events. — Kristine Sorensen, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026 This is why, for providers like Young, a freeze on federal child care subsidies could be immediately disastrous since providers rely on this bimonthly income to pay staff salaries, rent, utilities and food for kids. — Beki San Martin, Freep.com, 7 Jan. 2026 On a bimonthly basis, the company’s broader executive leadership team meets to align on Workday’s overall AI strategy. — John Kell, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bimonthly
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bimonthly
  1. monthly
  2. quarterly
  3. weekly
  4. annual
  5. daily
  6. periodical
  7. biweekly
  8. newspaper
Adjective
  • Four decades later, the band’s music is still everywhere, including television, social media and streaming platforms like Spotify, where Journey has more monthly listeners than Bruce Springsteen, U2 or Bob Dylan.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The company allows drivers to pay in full or spread the cost through a monthly payment plan, with terms available for up to five years, and monthly payments typically range from $99 to $150, depending on the vehicle and coverage level.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of monthly
Noun
  • Reporting quarterly is good for investors and good for the company.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 8 July 2026
  • Without a C-suite sponsor empowered to align incentives, tie outcomes to compensation and resolve trade-offs quarterly, AI becomes a mosaic of local optimizations rather than a source of enterprise differentiation.
    — Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 17 June 2026
Definition of quarterly
Adjective
  • The football mind was apparent during weekly preparation and the quick processing on the field at Oregon State.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Groceries Tariffs on Canadian beer, wine, spirits, dairy ingredients and more could cause some price increases during your weekly shopping.
    — Ryley Amond, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of weekly
Noun
  • There are plenty of good reasons to choose annuals, and many of your favorite flower varieties may be annuals.
    — Annie Burdick, The Spruce, 2 Sep. 2026
  • During this time, annuals often redirect their energy toward maturing seeds instead of flowers.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of annual
Adjective
  • Soon Balderas associated certain songs with her daily routine, particularly Antonio Aguilar songs.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Then, as now, the cable system reached only the five boroughs of New York City, giving NY1 a loyal, concentrated audience of more than 1 million daily viewers in the capital of media and finance.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of daily
Noun
  • People who might be lucky to have a roof over their heads gathered there to read American books and periodicals, watch American movies, listen to lectures about America, tap their toes to jazz from America.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • It is anticipated that all IEEE periodicals will be included in the Integrity Hub screening by the end of this year.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026
Definition of periodical
Adjective
  • This increases the basket size, and even more tantalizing for Walmart is that groceries are a weekly, biweekly, or monthly order cadence, whereas coffee can be daily.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The only way to keep pushing forward was to have biweekly angioplasty surgery, a minimally invasive medical produce used to open blocked or narrowed heart arteries.
    — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of biweekly
Noun
  • Local newspapers, foremost among them the New York Times, opened up their obituary pages to cover, in humanizing detail, the lives of ordinary people who died in the attacks.
    — Robert W. Snyder, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The 12 defendants, including Khalifa, were sentenced to death by hanging and fined 500,000 Egyptian pounds ($9,800) by Cairo’s Criminal Court, the al-Ahram newspaper reported.
    — Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of newspaper

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