Cycle and Trend

Cycle

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

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Trend and cycle are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trend" instead a noun "Cycle".

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

Trend noun - A prevailing or general movement or inclination.

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Cycle and trend are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cycle" instead a noun "Trend".

Nearby Words: trendy, trended, trending

long	long cycle	long trend
similar	similar cycle	similar trend
normal	normal cycle	normal trend
typical	typical cycle	typical trend
Other adjectives: usual, current, obvious, entire, big, slow, bad, famous, new, general, larger, next, recurring, recent, previous, ongoing.

While the trend in performance is to present the plays as one big cycle, scholars often dispute the degree to which the whole thing was planned out.

Source: Two-Part Trilogy
Winding the clock back even further, we see this is actually a cycle: the modern war shooter trend started by Counter-Strike and Modern Warfare displaces the World War II shooter trend of the late90s to mid 2000s.

Source: Deader Than Disco / Video Games

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