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Having temporary manners, attitudes, or patterns of behavior Also: Having cyclically recurring apparent forms of the moon or a planet

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  • Noun : Each phase of life brings its own joys. ,This is only one phase of the question. ,to put two mechanisms in phase. ,the phases of the moon....
  • Verb (used with object) : to phase one mechanism with another
  • And then we have an additional fracture system that is scheduled for launch next year in the hip line, and we have another iteration of the Optecure, what we call phasic...
  • Since life is a phasic process, the sense of fulfillment was not always there.
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