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periodical

[peer-ee-od-i-kuhl] / ˌpɪər iˈɒd ɪ kəl /


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The shutdown already resulted in staffing shortages and periodical flight delays.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

An entire notebook is devoted to The Spectator, a daily periodical that ran for 555 issues between 1711 and 1712 commenting on the manners and fads of London society.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

“Have they read the harrowing history of their ancestors’ bondage in Egypt to no purpose?” one writer in a Jewish periodical asked of pro-slavery Jews.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2025

When Cortni Borgerson thinks about the trillion or so periodical cicadas emerging from underground, she sees more than clumsily flying insects flitting from tree to tree in search of a mate.

From Salon • May 30, 2024

Give me plastics, periodical tables, t.v. dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston




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