[
US
/ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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recurring or reappearing from time to time
periodic feelings of anxiety -
happening or recurring at regular intervals
the periodic appearance of the seventeen-year locust
How To Use periodic In A Sentence
- We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
- This is then stacked into windrows or movable racks under a roofed area, and the piles are periodically aerated.
- He appeared periodically in the villages with his eight donkeys, or neddies as he called them, with jingling bells on their headstalls and their burdens of two sacks of small coal on each. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
- Once his periodic table had been drawn, these blanks were suddenly obvious. Times, Sunday Times
- During further analysis of these cosmids, high throughput sequence databanks were periodically screened for homology to the unique sequences until unannotated files containing exact matches appeared.
- The two sides remain sharply polarised, and periodic attempts to bridge the wide gulf between them have fizzled out.
- In the case of periodic tenancies the legislature left landlords free to bring them to an end by the service and expiry of valid notices to quit.
- Herein resided the stem-winding, therapeutic logic of the year-long national "conversation on race"; the periodic presidential apologies for world-historic wrongs which were usually strategic evasions of actual legislative responsibility; and the fussy feel-good conferences on teen violence and the media. The Feel Good Presidency
- The company also caters breakfast or lunch every week and funds other periodic after-hours activities such as karting, shooting, paintball. Jobs.joelonsoftware.com
- Lobsters, like all animals with exoskeletons, periodically shed their armor as they grow.