Cycle

the cycle of the seasons, or of the year

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electoral cycle    menstrual cycle    news cycle

No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.

Ice is one of a slate of young, idealistic candidates for Move Forward who have joined mainstream politics in the hope that this election allows Thailand to break the cycle of military coups […]

The Ring of the Nibelung is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.

Put the washing in on a warm cycle.

the spin cycle

Jones hit for the cycle in the game.

With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb

There appears to be no absolute cycle in the universe; all is change and progression. No planet ever revolves twice precisely in the same orbit.

Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day: / Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

[H]ere we endeavour to preſent our Gard'ners with a compleat Cycle of what is requiſite to be done throughout every Moneth of the Year: […]

a cycle or set of leaves

Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent.

The deterioration of his physique may be a result of his being off cycle.

[…] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards.

When my wife and I heard a plaintive whinny from our laundry room the other day, we knew that our old dryer had cycled its last load.

Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.

They have their cycling game going tonight.

Sometimes I would cycle over to Beckenham to watch the boat trains and Kent Coast expresses of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, which seemed very superior to its future partner.

I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.

Well, during our short staycation at Humberston Fitties, just south of Cleethorpes, we cycled through the very unspoilt Lincolnshire Wolds, which are by no means flat and boring as conventional wisdom about the county suggests.