cyclical
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Insurance is historically a cyclical business, featuring “hard” markets of rising premium rates leading to higher profitability, followed by “soft” markets of lower rates eating into those profits, and so on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
When they start shooting a movie together, they begin to understand their connection to this ancient evil, and their place in a cyclical inferno wrought by absent parents and bad weather.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Private equity has always been cyclical, and I would say now we’re in a little bit of a down part of the cycle,” said Kaplan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
“It’s sort of a cyclical history of us losing our spaces and then reclaiming our spaces,” said Rodriguez Flores of her family’s legacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
There then arose schools of thinkers who interpreted history as a cyclical process and claimed to show that inequality was the unalterable law of human life.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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