cycles

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of cycle.
  cycle

  noun

  any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
• present tense form

  present tense

  Used to describe things happening now or regularly.

  of cycle (3rd person singular).
  cycle

  noun

  any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.

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cycles

Earlier Floquet-based techniques have generally depended on slower processes involving many repeated driving cycles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

But “Munich,” which followed six months later, goes straight to the questions of terrorism and endless cycles of retaliation that hung over the period.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

This is one of thousands of videos on TikTok and Instagram suggesting that people change their workouts depending on where they are in their menstrual cycles - something known as 'cycle-syncing'.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Moreover, AI is shortening chip-design cycles and, sooner or later, this will lead to a return of the boom-and-bust cycle of the semiconductor industry, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

One of Freud’s closest friends, a surgeon named Wilhelm Fliess, invented biorhythmic analysis, a practice based on the notion that various aspects of one’s life follow rigid periodic cycles which begin at birth.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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