Issue and Period

Issue

Issue noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.

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Period and issue are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Period" instead a noun "Issue".

Nearby Words: issued, issuing, issuance, issuer

Period noun - An occurrence of menstruating.

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Issue and period are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Issue" instead a noun "Period".

full	full issue	full period
particular	particular issue	particular period
similar	similar issue	similar period
specific	specific issue	specific period
Other adjectives: certain, current, original, single, small, actual, entire, real, new, early, general, given, late, later, next, last, different, earlier.

Not That Kind of Doctor: Has to deal with this off-frame in one issue when he's visiting a friend's hospital during a busy period.

Source: Comic Book / Steel
Covers Always Lie: There was an odd period during the Files series (the period surrounding issue 100) where they decided to start marketing the books almost as a romance series.

Source: Literature / Nancy Drew
The master tapes for this were wiped in the '70s (a routine event for the BBC in this period) but a domestic recording was later recovered and used to re-issue the series.

Source: Literature / The Hobbit

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