Definition of "cycles" []

• Plural form of cycle. (noun)

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• "One of the cycles is the way governments and long-lived organizations unite to fight change."
• "China has the world's largest population and credits its 30-year-old family planning limits with preventing 400 million additional births and helping break a traditional preference for large families that had left many trapped in cycles of poverty."
• "My guess, given the previous prehistoric warming cycles, is that the net effect will be a cooling one, significantly dampening the impact of all of the additional carbon."