cycle
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Yes, they will fluctuate on any given day, week or month, as the news cycle pushes and pulls your stocks three ways from Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
El Nino is the warming phase of a natural cycle in the tropical Pacific known as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, and comes along every two to seven years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Also, the minutes of the FOMC’s September meeting “reinforced the view that the Fed’s hiking cycle is not over,” the economist and currency strategist adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Like nearly every club in in the world, at some point players choose to leave or depart a football club. That's just a natural cycle."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
I would much rather chill at Aaron’s, sit in my room, run to the Internet and then to the bathroom, rinse, cycle, repeat.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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He said heavy rain could overwhelm drainage systems and penetrate walls, causing damp and erosion, while repeated cycles of wetting, drying, freezing and thawing could harm stonework.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Around a third are over 90 years old and are far past their expected life cycles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Every so often, refineries shut down for months to work on “turnarounds” — top-to-bottom refurbishment and replacement cycles due to safety and other regulations — which are expensive propositions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
In a landmark 2020 study, Hablitz, Nedergaard, and colleagues demonstrated that glymphatic function follows daily cycles even independently of sleep, establishing a direct link between circadian biology and the brain's waste-clearing system.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Which is saying a lot because it’s a doozy—multiple cycles of around-the-horn drills followed by full-speed base laps, capped off with Coach Nat’s favorite form of torture: push-ups.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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It cycled through a range of staticky notes—the frequencies that would heal us.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Head coach Raul Lara has cycled through three players in the position so far this season, and the standout against Corona Centennial on Friday was Paytyn Guess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Antonelli looked to have taken control of the race as he cycled from third on the initial grid to the lead after two standing starts punctuated by a long delay because of Verstappen's crash.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
He cannot remember the crash at a busy junction in Rhyl, Denbighshire, but knows a friend from school cycled to his parents' house to tell them.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
As I cycled home, I found myself craving the relative safety and normality of the house for once.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Both brothers are former college soccer players but said they don’t work out much these days, apart from cycling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The 37-year-old began his journey just hours after spinning out of Sunday's chaotic Grand Prix, taking a trip that involved off-road and gravel trails as well as cycling at night.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Astronomers call the exchange of material into and out of galaxies baryon cycling.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The office also can lift obstacles to building more affordable housing, while using its prosecutor role to shift many homeless offenders to diversion programs “rather than cycling people between jails and our streets,” Roy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“I don’t know. I end up there a lot. It’s where I kissed this girl, Cathy, for the first time. I went there after my family died, and after my first cycling marathon.”
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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