cyclical
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˈsɪklɪkəl/
:
cíclico
- Many economic trends are cyclical, rising and falling over predictable intervals.
- cyclical pattern
- cyclical process
- cyclical nature
I I think that they saw it as proof of the cyclical nature of life.
- I I think that they saw it as proof of the cyclical nature of life.
- So you have this cyclical never ending story.
- History is is not regular and cyclical and predictable.
- And that would be mostly a cyclical market where, yeah, boom and bust cycles.
- Cycle markets are cyclical, prices go up.
- I have noticed that it's cyclical and we go in and out of it.
- So I'm a big skeptic about cyclical theories of history.
- So we would have this cyclical transformation.
- So entire physical nature is born out of cyclical movement.
- Why have I disapproved of the stimulus of the the like large counter cyclical Keynesian policies?
- One question we could ask is whether blitz scaling is counter cyclical.
- They attract a market and it's counter cyclical.
- That the clock, the master clock of sleep and of the brain at night is that cyclical, deep, easy breathing pattern.
- And so like, yeah, Phoenix has been a great market, but it's also been more cyclical, like more more up and down.
Examples
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This is a cyclical bull market within a longer term secular bear market.
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At the same time, the reduction in aggregate demand has caused a cyclical recession in Poland.
Academic text (1990) -
I I think that they saw it as proof of the cyclical nature of life.
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I have noticed that it's cyclical and we go in and out of it.
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You and I know this economies are cyclical, right?
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I mean, this is the cyclical nature of late-night TV.
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We begin to notice here an emphasis on the circular or cyclical aspects of life in relation to time.
Fiction book (1996) -
Her illness was somewhat cyclical, usually recurring in the winter and lasting for two or three months.
Fiction book (2000) -
Self-regulating one's performance is cyclical in that the feedback from prior performances is used to adjust one's current approach.
Academic text (2012) -
Because it's always cyclical, there's always an ebb and a flow to what's happening.
Synonyms
58
3.5
Doing the same thing again and again
47
3.9
Happens again at regular times
42
3.6
Having a regular pattern of sounds or movements
12
4.7
Happening again and again, often at regular times
5
6.6
Happening again and again to improve something
5
4.8
Happens repeatedly in a regular pattern
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4.4
Happening at regular times
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3.9
Happening with a steady, regular beat like music or movement
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7.4
Using the same words or idea again and again
Happens again and again over time
Happening again and again
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A government budget shortfall that grows in a recession and falls when the economy improves
How Cyclical
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5.1
870
1.0
47
3.9
35
6.5
285
2.8
27
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cyclical comes from the Greek root kyklos, which means 'circle', and you can see this root in English words like cycle and bicycle, so imagine a wheel turning again and again. So, something cyclical happens again and again at regular times.