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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cycle .
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Examples
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As batteries are "cycled" through numerous discharge and charge sequences, lead sulfate that forms during normal discharge is slowly converted to a very stable crystalline form which no longer dissolves on recharging.
CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries Guest 2010
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There's no suggestion that these drugs were prescribed needlessly (some patients are indeed very sick), however this patient seems to have been "cycled" through various drug categories - hence
BNET Articles 2009
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Since 1961, seven deputies have moved up, starting with Walt W. Rostow (after a detour to State) for Lyndon Johnson; Brent Scowcroft for Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush; and Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter and Colin Powell for Ronald Reagan - who cycled through six national security advisers in eight years.
Is national security deputy Donilon moving up? Al Kamen 2010
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FARRO Though best known as a recent import from Italy, farro was cycled into rice crop rotations in the American south before the Civil War.
Get Your Freekeh On Kristen Miglore 2012
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Since 1961, seven deputies have moved up, starting with Walt W. Rostow (after a detour to State) for Lyndon Johnson; Brent Scowcroft for Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush; and Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter and Colin Powell for Ronald Reagan - who cycled through six national security advisers in eight years.
Is national security deputy Donilon moving up? Al Kamen 2010
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According to Jim Chisholm, a Cambridge Cycling Campaign spokesperson, fewer students cycle now than in previous years, and many haven't cycled since childhood.
What makes Cambridge a model cycling city? | Laura Laker 2011
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The new compounds can be up-cycled and down-cycled into many different types of plastics.
Scientists Develop Ultra-Recyclable Green Plastic | Inhabitat 2010
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Michael Kappeler/DPA/Zumapress.com A florist cycled down a street Monday in Hanoi, her bike loaded with flowers.
Asia in Pictures 2011
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Outside of the loss and restructuring, Morgan Stanley showed some progress in the turnaround of its fixed-income business, an inconsistent segment that has cycled through several new trading heads in recent years.
Morgan Stanley Retools as Profit Drops Aaron Lucchetti 2011
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Collectively, we might need only one such course cycled through each semester.
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