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as in serial
appearing in parts or numbers that follow regularly
a periodical town newsletter that is supported by local advertisers
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as in recurrent
occurring or appearing at intervals
periodical announcements from airline personnel concerning the delay
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as in frequent
appearing or occurring repeatedly from time to time
periodical visits to the dentist will help keep your teeth healthy
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as in newspaper
a publication that appears at regular intervals
subscribed to three new periodicals
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Recent Examples of periodical
Kirsty McHugh, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Humanoids attempted to bring it back occasionally in an English periodical edition, but anthologies generally don’t do well in the comic book direct market.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
In each of these periodicals, the passage—unmoored from its original context among other beauty secrets—offered a lengthy and extremely specific taxonomy of the connection between hair and character:
Coarse, black hair and dark skin signify great power of character, with a tendency to sensuality.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
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Adjective
Dickens had taken a nom de plume in the tradition of journalists and periodical writers, but there was no need to conceal his identity.
—Kirsty McHugh, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Humanoids attempted to bring it back occasionally in an English periodical edition, but anthologies generally don’t do well in the comic book direct market.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
Plenty of people still enjoy traditional books and periodicals, and there are even readers for whom the networked age has enabled a kind of hyper-literacy; for them, a smartphone is a library in their pocket.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
In each of these periodicals, the passage—unmoored from its original context among other beauty secrets—offered a lengthy and extremely specific taxonomy of the connection between hair and character:
Coarse, black hair and dark skin signify great power of character, with a tendency to sensuality.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for periodical
Adjective
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Now, serial leaker Majin Bu, in a new interview, spotted by MacRumors, claims that the Dynamic Island is going to change.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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The Girl Who Survived casts Robillard as the 15-year-old title character, an aspiring model in 1980s Los Angeles who shockingly gets caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous serial killer.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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About 795,000 occur each year, with 610,000 being first-time strokes and roughly 185,000 recurrent episodes, and in 2022 1 in 6 deaths were as a result of stroke.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 July 2025
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The agency said the Kp index could reach nearly four early Friday morning, potentially pulling the northern lights farther south, though NOAA expects no geomagnetic storms or significant transient or recurrent solar winds to disrupt the Earth’s geomagnetic field.—
Ty Roush,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
Adjective
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Advertisement Advertisement Extreme weather events are only becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change.—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
15 July 2025
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The mysterious and frequent deaths of Spinal Tap drummers is a running joke throughout the film.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
15 July 2025
Noun
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President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Friday against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch a day after the newspaper published a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 July 2025
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Note: Most subscribers have some, but not all, of the puzzles that correspond to the following set of solutions for their local newspaper.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
19 July 2025
Adjective
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Does this bring him into a more recurring, regular role?—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
9 May 2025
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Dobson says the research is coming now that the power engineering community increasingly recognizes cascading failures as a distinct and recurring problem—a concept that still elicited protests from power engineers in the aftermath of the 2003 blackout.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
14 Aug. 2013
Adjective
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Rain showers and periodic storms are possible every day through Tuesday before humidity and heat were expected to build again in the Chicago area, the weather service predicted.—
William Tong,
Chicago Tribune,
19 July 2025
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Businesses should conduct periodic audits of cloud consumption, eliminate redundant services and negotiate better contracts with cloud vendors. 4.—
Motasem El Bawab,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
Noun
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According to Healthcare Workers Watch, a Palestinian non-governmental organization that has been cited in medical journals and international media reports, Sultan was the seventieth health-care worker killed in the Gaza Strip in the past fifty days alone.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
19 July 2025
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In images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s ALMA telescope in Chile’s Atacama desert, researchers have done just that, according to a study published in the journal Nature.—
Rudy Molinek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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Unlike regular conditioners, which often focus solely on moisture, these formulas are designed to boost volume, strengthen strands, and improve the look of thinning hair.—
Malia Griggs,
Glamour,
15 July 2025
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Healthy hair requires more than just a regular trim and minimizing heat damage.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
15 July 2025
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“Periodical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/periodical. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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