Synonyms ofperiodic

• as infrequent
• as inrecurrent
• as infrequent
• as inrecurrent
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• These areas could be faced with flash flooding andfrequentlightning due to stronger, slow-moving thunderstorms with torrential rain.
  — Daniel Peck,ABC News, 4 May 2025
• Ben Oliver, anotherfrequentcontributor, leaned into his extensive experience track-testing cars beyond 200 mph and road cycling to illuminate the physical and mental sensations of speed and why humans thrill at going ever faster, danger be damned.
  — Julie Belcove,Robb Report, 3 May 2025

• Most patients with advanced dementia are suitable candidates, especially with decreasing function, increasing confusion, andrecurrentinfections.
  — Dr. Sabooh Mubbashar,Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2025
• What their friendship actually looks like has yet to come into focus, even when co-directors Barry Levinson and Robert May position them asrecurrentnarrators speaking directly to the audience.
  — Ben Travers,IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025

• And the city sinks around two millimeters a year due toregularsubsidence.
  — Julia Buckley,CNN Money, 4 May 2025
• Fewer visits to America The U.S. tourism industry could take an especially hard hit as Canadians give up theirregularvacations south of the border.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman,USA Today, 4 May 2025

• Dobson says the research is coming now that the power engineering community increasingly recognizes cascading failures as a distinct andrecurringproblem—a concept that still elicited protests from power engineers in the aftermath of the 2003 blackout.
  — IEEE Spectrum,IEEE Spectrum, 14 Aug. 2013
• The strange makeup ofrecurringdreams Research has found that most recurring dreams have a negative tone with themes often related to helplessness, failure, or being chased.
  — Stacey Colino,TIME, 4 Mar. 2025

• Abrego Garcia left his home in El Salvador in 2011 at the age of sixteen after a local gang extorted his family's business, threatened to rape and kill his sisters, and maderepeatedthreats on his life, according to immigration court filings.
  — Peter Charalambous,ABC News, 18 Apr. 2025
• In 2023, a study using a combination of computer simulations and laboratory tests showed howrepeateddeposition of magnesium and calcium layers followed by dissolution of parts of the crystal, removing so the surplus calcium, can create stable dolomite near ambient conditions.
  — David Bressan,Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025

• Texas boasts one of the United States' oldest wineries incontinualoperation: Val Verde Winery near the Mexican border, which has been in operation since 1883.
  — Mark Weinstein,MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025
• With oversight from the General Manager and Beverage Director, the Bar Manager oversees all day-to-day beverage functions & operations including marketing initiatives, staff scheduling, training and execution, cost control and driving top line revenue ascontinualfocus.
  — Pete Grathoff,Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2025

• All this turmoil represented a huge reversal in fortune for Diamond, which grew from modest beginnings to become the sole distributor forperiodicalcomic books, and a major distributor of games, trade books and other collectibles, from the late 1990s.
  — Rob Salkowitz,Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
• South Carolina has annual cicadas, which appear every year as the name suggests, and starting soon, theperiodicalBrood XIX, which emerges every 13 years in huge numbers.
  — Emily DeLetter,USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024

• The network, everconstant, will continue to play its part as well.
  — Megan Garber,The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
• Deployments and theconstantthreat of war may strain relationships.
  — Anne Ritter,The Conversation, 2 May 2025