cyclic

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“Reproductive-age women from puberty to menopause have significant cyclic changes in their sex hormones during the course of their menstrual cycle,” says Dr. Kacey M. Hamilton, a complex benign gynecologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026

From someone who described himself as "the all-knowing master of the universe", he now identifies as a God-fearing man who believes in good energies, the cyclic nature of life and "scientific astrologers".

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025

This study extends earlier work from the same lab showing that perception of vision and sound is cyclic, with our brain taking around eight samples per second.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024

The paper is titled "Activation of CBASS-Cap5 endonuclease immune effector by cyclic nucleotides."

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2024

Neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle, they were no flesh of mine, no friends; no love between us.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin