Cycle and Year

Cycle

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

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

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

Year noun - The period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun.

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Cycle and year are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cycle" instead a noun "Year".

Nearby Words: yearly, yearling

old	old cycle	old year
full	full cycle	full year
normal	normal cycle	normal year
following	following cycle	following year
Other adjectives: present, future, current, standard, original, single, actual, entire, great, bad, senior, final, later, next, last, different, local, recent, previous, solar.

Mass Effect: the Reaper cycle of extinction might not count (certainly it's been going on for a long, long time and was never meant to end), but their one-to-three-hundred-year exterminations do.

Source: Forever War
Similarly, Sony has claimed that the PS3 will have a 10-year life cycle, lasting until somewhere around 2016.

Source: Useful Notes / Console Wars
In reality, the mayoral election cycle in New York City happens during the off-year after a Presidential election cycle.

Source: Series / Blue Bloods

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