cycles
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Around a third are over 90 years old and are far past their expected life cycles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Every so often, refineries shut down for months to work on “turnarounds” — top-to-bottom refurbishment and replacement cycles due to safety and other regulations — which are expensive propositions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
In a landmark 2020 study, Hablitz, Nedergaard, and colleagues demonstrated that glymphatic function follows daily cycles even independently of sleep, establishing a direct link between circadian biology and the brain's waste-clearing system.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
"This storm is expected to bring major coastal flooding to the Mid-Atlantic Coast over multiple high tide cycles through the weekend," the National Weather Service said in its latest forecast.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
It was after that I noticed a change in her, as if her soul had at last matured and begun its cycles.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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