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adjective.
recurring in cycles
Word Usage
"America's official unemployment rate remains stubbornly near 10%, the real unemployment rate is likely well north of 20% and neither the president nor any of the major presidential challengers appear to understand this essential truth: Our malaise is NOT simply a short term cyclical problem amenable to even more profligate Democratic stimulus or knee jerk Republican flat taxes."