cycles
Example Sentences
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Cattle markets run in 10-12 year cycles, he said, with some good years and some bad.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Real estate has always gone in cycles, boom followed by bust, and there is no particular reason to think “this time is different,” because in finance it seldom is.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
“What we are seeing today is different. Growers pulling out vines, mothballing vineyards and planting other crops points to something more structural than the cycles I have experienced,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Around a third are over 90 years old and are far past their expected life cycles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
As Montaigne put it in 1580, ‘the beliefs, judgements and opinions of men...have their cycles, seasons, births and deaths, every bit as much as cabbages do.’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
