Synonyms for periodic
ˌpɪər iˈɒd ɪkpe·ri·od·ic

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1. periodic, periodicaladjective

   happening or recurring at regular intervals

   "the periodic appearance of the seventeen-year locust"

   Synonyms:
   occasional, periodical

   Antonyms:
   continual, aperiodic, nonperiodic, noncyclic, nonoscillatory

2. periodic, occasionaladjective

   recurring or reappearing from time to time

   "periodic feelings of anxiety"

   Synonyms:
   occasional(a), occasional, periodical, episodic, casual

   Antonyms:
   nonoscillatory, continual, noncyclic, nonperiodic, aperiodic

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1. periodicadjective

   Synonyms:
   recurring (regularly)

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1. List of paraphrases for "periodic":

   periodical, periodicals, regular, al-douri, periodically, patrol, newspaper, recurrent, newspapers, regularly, league, rotating, aldouri, periódico, al-duri, aldori, recurring, cyclical, routine, journals, duri, combined

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1. Margaret Mohr:

   Over the next two months, it is important that we still see periodic rain and snowstorms to keep an above average pace for our precipitation totals.

2. The EIA:

   There needs to be greater investment [by China] in intelligence-led enforcement to pursue the Chinese businesses and individuals who are running operations at the [Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone]... These shouldn’t be periodic operations that are co-ordinated once a year, but full-time, multi-agency operations.

3. Joseph Sroka:

   There are periodic points of news flow where the positive news will carry the market and negative news will pressure the market, it's a return of health concerns versus economic optimism.

4. David Montefiori:

   Thinking of this as a seasonal virus like flu, that hasn't been the case so far. The variants seem to be periodic, roughly every four to six months, we have a new variant.

5. James Mattis:

   We're sorting out obviously a period with some tension there, trade tension and all, so we'll get to the bottom of it but I don't think that we're seeing a fundamental shift in anything, we're just going through one of those periodic points where we got to learn to manage our differences.