A repeated cycle of eight rotating 12-note chords.

Buildings must be designed to survive the repeated cycle of freezing and thawing that can shatter stone and move buildings off their foundations.

Some historians claim that settlements were intentionally burned in a repeated cycle of construction and destruction.

A form of fire-stick farming was used to clear areas of old growth to encourage new in a repeated cycle; a primitive permaculture.

Through repeated cycles of this process, a single explant sample may be increased from one to hundreds or thousands of plants.