periodical 1 of 2

adjective

ˌpir-ē-ˈä-di-kəl How to pronounce periodical (audio)
Definition of periodicalnext
1
as in serial
appearing in parts or numbers that follow regularly a periodical town newsletter that is supported by local advertisers

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2
as in recurrent
occurring or appearing at intervals periodical announcements from airline personnel concerning the delay

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3
as in frequent
appearing or occurring repeatedly from time to time periodical visits to the dentist will help keep your teeth healthy

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periodical

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noun

as in newspaper
a publication that appears at regular intervals subscribed to three new periodicals

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Recent Examples of periodical
Adjective
Like any outlet covering Congress, media working for TMZ must be credentialed by the Senate and House periodical press galleries. — Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 15 Apr. 2026 Beginning in the 1890s, three successive Henry Wallaces — father, son, and grandson — held the editor’s pen at the influential periodical, Wallaces’ Farmer. — Andrew Klumpp, Des Moines Register, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
Galaxy, Analog, and Amazing Stories, those three periodicals – and our bathroom was piled high. — Ben Mankiewicz, CBS News, 7 June 2026 Heuermann is an avid ready of books and periodicals, Toulon told ABC News. — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for periodical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for periodical
  1. serial
  2. recurrent
  3. frequent
  4. newspaper
  5. serialized
  6. recurring
  7. periodic
  8. journal
Adjective
  • While the haunting serial murders are the mainstay within the show, Kay also smartly addresses resentments in the police department between patrol cops and detectives and even officers who turn on each other.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The stories of two high schoolers, Jules and Quinn, entwine on May 1, the day a serial killer attacks one of them.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of serial
Adjective
  • His new marrow engrafted quickly, and aside from some recurrent adenovirus, his recovery went remarkably well.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Joan Baez, yet another famous fan, emerges as one of the diary’s recurrent characters, and a kind of guiding spirit for this metamorphosis.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of recurrent
Adjective
  • The bad news is that even with the frequent showers and thunderstorms that parts of the state have picked up over the last week and a half, the mountains of our state have not seen enough to make a dramatic change.
    — Dave Aguilera, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Someone with gestational hypertension will need more frequent monitoring, which may include home blood pressure measurements, blood and urine tests, and additional monitoring of fetal growth and well-being.
    — Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of frequent
Noun
  • Still, the question of what Ebel was doing with his adepts swept through Prussia, dominating the newspapers that had only recently begun to emerge from their eighteenth-century chronicling of obligations to a more modern publicizing role.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Spanish investigators this year shelved their case, but newspaper El Pais later reported it was reopened.
    — Fabiola Zerpa, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of newspaper
Adjective
  • Noiser presents each story as a serialized listening experience in the podcast apps people already use every day.
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Seen together, the trilogy charts both a personal coming-of-age and a generational coming-to-grips with aging that, even when compared against similar serialized documentary experiments like Michael Apted’s 7 Up installments, feels wholly unique.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of serialized
Adjective
  • How Recurring Revenue Is The Pump There’s only one kind of funding that reliably shows up in year seven—recurring, unrestricted revenue.
    — Sarah Evans, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Excluding non-recurring events, the magnitude of the average S & P 500 earnings surprise for the quarter is still about 11%.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of recurring
Adjective
  • Real-time tracking cuts costly checks Nuclear facilities currently rely on a combination of instruments, physical security measures, manual sampling and periodic shutdowns to determine how much nuclear material is present and where it is located.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
  • While Western intelligence agencies have debated periodic reports of Iranian scientists attending North Korean nuclear tests, Pyongyang’s willingness to proliferate nuclear infrastructure elsewhere is beyond doubt.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of periodic
Noun
  • Patel’s new study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open, found a 15% increase in traffic fatalities on the days major new albums are released, compared with the days immediately before and after.
    — Diana Anos, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The findings are presented in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026
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