cyclical

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"I wanted the repetition to mirror those cyclical thoughts - a spiral or a fixation on one specific feeling," she says.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Likewise, auto insurance is cyclical, but Copart’s salvage yards are hard to duplicate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Like memory chips, data storage is a notoriously cyclical industry, where shortages are often followed by a glut.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

The memory market is traditionally cyclical, which is why some on Wall Street are skittish even in the face of sky-high prices for dynamic random-access memory and NAND.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

The concept of discovery brings with it a new sense of time as linear rather than cyclical.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton