Synonyms for life cycle
life cy·cle

Princeton's WordNet

1. life cyclenoun

   a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage

2. life cyclenoun

   the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

Matched Categories

1. • Growth
   • Organic Phenomenon

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1. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images:

   We are a mentor and a coach and an adviser to candidates for whatever they need. We really customize the service because every campaign and candidate is really different, and we're really there to be helpful in whatever way they need us to be and really are there throughout the entire life cycle of a candidate.

2. Phillip Cleves:

   Corals are facing unprecedented declines due to climate change, motivating researchers to understand molecular basis of their thermal tolerance, how they complete their life cycle, and interactions with algae that live inside them, our ability to understand how specific genes contribute to these traits in corals is held back by the lack of methods to test how a particular gene functions in corals.

3. Philipp Heck:

   With this study, we have directly determined the lifetimes of stardust. We hope this will be picked up and studied so that people can use this as input for models of the whole galactic life cycle, it's so exciting to look at the history of our galaxy. Stardust is the oldest material to reach Earth, and from it, we can learn about our parent stars, the origin of the carbon in our bodies [ and ] the origin of the oxygen we breathe. With stardust, we can trace that material back to the time before the sun.

4. Kaitlyn Loftus:

   The life cycle of clouds is really important when we think about planet habitability, but clouds and precipitation are really complicated and too complex to model completely. We're looking for simpler ways to understand how clouds evolve, and a first step is whether cloud droplets evaporate in the atmosphere or make it to the surface as rain.

5. Peter Arno:

   Social Security is the most successful anti-poverty policy in the history of the United States, and this is not true just for seniors, but across the entire life cycle and the entire population. It reduces more poverty for children than any other policy, more poverty for working adults and more poverty for seniors. So it's an intergenerational antipoverty program.