Loop and Period

Loop

Loop noun - A circular strip.

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

Nearby Words: looped, loopy, looping

Period noun - An occurrence of menstruating.

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

full	full loop	full period
long	long loop	long period
particular	particular loop	particular period
similar	similar loop	similar period
Other adjectives: short, stable, current, original, single, entire, new, early, later, classic, next, last, different, earlier.

She has lived about 81,200 years (56 iterations of the loop), living through the same looping time period, trying to fix the machine and end the loop.

Source: "Groundhog Day" Loop
A plot in which the character is caught in a time loop, doomed to repeat a period of time (often exactly one day) over and over, until something is corrected.

Source: "Groundhog Day" Loop
Sergeant Cortez does, at least once per time period, meet a future version of himself that saves him, then when he reaches the period the future version is from, he then goes back to save his past self, fulfilling the time loop.

Source: You Already Changed the Past

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