variants
or cyclical
as in periodic
happening again and again in the same order
cyclic changes in the weather the cyclical nature of history
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Recent Examples of cyclic
In relatively lean times the budget lobbying grows even more intense — a cyclic phenomenon now playing out as politicians wrestle with multi-billion-dollar shortfalls.
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Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025
Trends rooted in fundamental changes like demographic shifts or technological progress are more likely to stay, and the trends based on fashion are cyclic, but their time is short.
—Raheel Sheikh, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
Because of its collaborations, CPR has been able to develop drugs like antibodies and cyclic peptides.
—Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
The party never stops Perhaps all this overwhelming negativity regarding the end of the Universe is what prompted Nobel laureate Roger Penrose in 2010 to propose a completely different mechanism for the long-term fate of the Universe, something dubbed conformal cyclic cosmology, or CCC.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
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Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025
Trends rooted in fundamental changes like demographic shifts or technological progress are more likely to stay, and the trends based on fashion are cyclic, but their time is short.
—Raheel Sheikh, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
Because of its collaborations, CPR has been able to develop drugs like antibodies and cyclic peptides.
—Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
The party never stops Perhaps all this overwhelming negativity regarding the end of the Universe is what prompted Nobel laureate Roger Penrose in 2010 to propose a completely different mechanism for the long-term fate of the Universe, something dubbed conformal cyclic cosmology, or CCC.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cyclic
Adjective
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Beyond that, periodic chances of showers and storms will continue throughout the rest of the week.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
7 July 2025
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Traditional extract, transform and load (ETL) systems—built for periodic batch jobs—fall short in these contexts.—
Shinoy Vengaramkode Bhaskaran,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
Adjective
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To prevent recurrent issues, owners should identify the source of the cat's arousal and avoid as best as possible.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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For example, our findings provide a key reason why patients with a chronic autoimmune disease called systemic lupus erythematosus often suffer from recurrent infections.—
Andrew Monteith,
The Conversation,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Reviewers say the headset battery stays charged through several hours of continuous use.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
1 July 2025
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These must be reliable, scalable and secure, leveraging the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) for service management, SAFe for agility and DevOps for continuous improvement.—
Maria Raymond,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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“Cyclic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cyclic. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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