Cycle and Passage

Cycle

Cycle noun - A series of events or actions that repeat themselves regularly and in the same order.

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Passage and cycle are semantically related in space topic. In some cases you can use "Passage" instead a noun "Cycle".

Nearby Words: cyclic, cycling, cyclically, cyclical, cycled

Passage noun - An established course for traveling from one place to another.

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Cycle and passage are semantically related in space topic. Sometimes you can use "Cycle" instead a noun "Passage".

Nearby Words: pass, passed, passing, passageway, passaged

old	old cycle	old passage
full	full cycle	full passage
long	long cycle	long passage
similar	similar cycle	similar passage
Other adjectives: normal, natural, short, following, original, continuous, single, actual, entire, slow, famous, new, final, later, last, lengthy, earlier.

In Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue, the largest and presumably last fugue in the cycle abruptly cuts off mid-passage, as a result of the piece being unfinished before he died.

Source: No Ending
The Reynard Cycle: Tybalt's suggestion to escape the Calvarian navy via a passage inhabited by a sea monster in Reynard the Fox is finally accepted using this sort of logic.

Source: Crazy Enough to Work
Another book contained a long, boring, and appropriately circular passage about the Water Cycle, so that Lemony could slip in a secret message to his sister under the impression that anyone else would have stopped reading by this point.

Source: Painting the Medium

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