Cycle
Cycle noun - A series of events or actions that repeat themselves regularly and in the same order.
Usage example: the cycle of birth, growth, decline, and death that is experienced by all life forms
Series is a synonym for cycle in event topic. In some cases you can use "Series" instead a noun "Cycle", when it comes to topics like sequence, era, iteration. popular alternative
Series
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In Steven Brust's Dragaera series, the empire (called, naturally, "The Empire") goes through "the cycle," a series of rulers based on their clan (each ruling several hundred years).
Source: The Cycle of Empires - Arabian Nights is a 2000 TV mini-series based on the Arabian Nights story cycle.As in the original, it consists of a series of stories told by Scheherazade to her husband, the mad Sultan Shahryar, to forestall his determination to have her executed before she can betray him as his first wife did.
Source: Series / Arabian Nights - The four Sinistrals, villains of the Lufia series, are reborn every 100 years... a cycle which can only be broken if Erim, Mistress of Death, is the last one killed.
Source: Vicious Cycle
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