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Plural for a length or portion of time
“You have entered a critical period where the decisions you make will have a profound impact on the rest of your life.”
Plural for a flow of organic material from the lining of the uterus
“Many women do not suspect that they are pregnant until their period fails to arrive.”
Plural for the punctuation mark indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation
“A name is nothing but two proper nouns with a letter and a period stuck between them.”
(archaic) Plural for the final point of a process
“Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough. This is the period of my ambition.”
Plural for each of the set divisions of the day in a school allocated to a lesson or other activity
“Walking down the hallway towards first period trigonometry, Jordan smiled as she passed her fellow students.”
Plural for a sudden short bout of an illness or stress
Plural for the end or conclusion of something
Plural for a period of time when a session is held, typically in a court of law
Plural for an interval or passage of time
Plural for a fixed point of time in the future where certain processes will be evaluated or assumed to end
Plural for a very small dot or mark
Plural for punctuation mark that separates sentence elements
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