cyclical
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Anyway, profits tend to be cyclical: this boom will eventually end as all the others did.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
He said growth was hit by "cyclical headwinds and the late adoption of the government budget" that cut public spending, including on renovation subsidies for low-income households.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Gains like that make memory stocks seem ripe for a fall, especially given how highly cyclical the industry has been historically.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Memory is a historically cyclical industry, which has kept Sandisk’s multiple compressed.
From Barron's • May 27, 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
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