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cyclical rumination 

The constant pondering over and over again about an issue and not doing anything to resolve it.

Verbal cyclical rumination - do something about it (ie put something into action) or stop verbalising it coz I don't wanna hear about it again.
"You have to do something about this cyclical rumination, its not healthy, act on it!"

pro-cyclical

Something that moves in the same direction as GDP.
When GDP increases, standard of living increases. Therefore, standard of living is pro-cyclical.
pro-cyclical by poundpusher May 17, 2006

Cyclically Unemployed 

A girl who has not had a man in her life in a long time or ever. She is ready for a man. Her mind is always thinking about where she can find a man. She is in search for a dating life and is open to a lot of guys. She may perceive herself as being of low value.
Christina is cyclically unemployed due to her willingness to put up with John’s low value behaviors. She is still showing dedication to him despite the normally unattractive behaviors.

pro-cyclicality 

A downward spiral

A nice/political/doublespeak way of defining something (see financial crisis) in a positive-feedback loop heading for destruction. An impending shitstorm
from:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5614520.ece

It came as Jean-Claude Trichet pointed the finger at financial markets calling on them to refrain from putting pressure on banks to hold on to more capital as that was aggravating the economic downturn.

The European Central Bank President said: “It is not our position, and we will do all that we can to pass the message that we are not in agreement with that. That would augment the pro-cyclicality of the present period.”
pro-cyclicality by hiphopodyssey January 30, 2009

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026