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periodic

[peer-ee-od-ik] / ˌpɪər iˈɒd ɪk /


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Granted, rebalancing is one of those periodic chores that’s easy to neglect, like dusting your refrigerator coils.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Preston pointed out that despite the periodic divergences and the Dow’s old-school image, the index has actually changed dramatically over the decades so as to “reflect and capture” the stock market’s trends.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

Its aging facilities, originally built between the 1930s and ’50s, require replacement rather than the periodic updates they’ve received.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

This property is one reason the periodic table contains so many different elements.

From Science Daily • May 9, 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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