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The word "periods" is correct and can be used in written English
It can be used to refer to time intervals, punctuation marks, menstrual cycles, or other intervals. Example sentence: She runs track, and her periods of peak performance have been getting shorter.
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periods
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Plural of period
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Over longer periods, stocks and shares tend to deliver a superior return to cash, despite periodic bouts of volatility, so if you have a long-term goal in mind, it may be worth taking the gamble.
Jeff Carter scored in the opening minute of the second and third periods for the Kings, who became the first road team to win in the series.
Flights extra While the situation in East Timor is relatively calm compared with recent periods of political strife, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office still advises against "all but essential travel" to the region.
We know that the offender has periods of non-offending that may suggest he is not always in the UK".
I winced in sympathy at female tennis players who have their periods during Wimbledon, when they must wear white and are allowed one toilet break per set.
I cheered upon seeing female athletes talk periods in response to Watson, including Annabel Croft, Paula Radcliffe, and athlete Jessica Judd, who told the BBC that doctors trialled a drug on her because she had her period, and it didn't work.
Some girls started their periods and thought they were dying of cancer.
I started asking other women in my family about their first periods, and I found it was an electric topic".
Bobel has charted the movement's history, writing about the first "bleed-in" in 1973, when 13 women gathered in the US and "shared stories of their first periods".
But, as Kauder Nalebuff's book illustrates, this is a subject long mired in shame and confusion – there are girls who know nothing about periods until their first one arrives, and assume it is a sign of impending death.
Although the red arrival was meant to mark a watershed moment of diary-marking and tins stuffed with pads, my 28-day count soon fell by the wayside, as my periods became nothing more than an annual event.
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