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occurring

[uh-kur]

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verb (used without object), -curred, -cur·ring.

to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?

to be met with or found; present itself; appear.

to suggest itself in thought; come to mind (usually followed by to): An idea occurred to me.

Origin:
1520–30; < Latin occurrere to run to meet, arrive, meet, equivalent to oc- oc- + currere to run

Related forms

pre·oc·cur, verb (used without object), -curred, -cur·ring.

re·oc·cur, verb (used without object), -curred, -cur·ring.

un·oc·cur·ring, adjective

Synonyms
1. befall. See happen. 2. arise, offer.

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Example Sentences

The incident, occurring at the height of morning rush hour, caused major traffic jams.

The combination of aptness and familiarity means that clichés are constantly occurring to a writer.

Based on these patterns, they create an index, which spits out the overall probability of a crisis occurring.

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The incident, occurring at the height of morning rush hour, caused major traffic jams.

The combination of aptness and familiarity means that clichés are constantly occurring to a writer.

Based on these patterns, they create an index, which spits out the overall probability of a crisis occurring.

Scientists are already seeing some of these changes occurring more quickly than they had expected.

Yeah there is significant innovation occurring in your huge cities.

These rats will multiply as quickly as the available food supply if no predation is occurring.

Moss roses are naturally occurring sports of centifolia and damask roses.

They adopted calcite prisms, a type of naturally occurring crystal, to build carpet cloaks.

Wolin ignored the dialog that is actually occurring between scientists and religion.

These financial pressures are occurring against a backdrop of other economic fallout from the global crisis.

In the past, engineers instructed the satellite where to train its instruments when important geological events were occurring.

Less moisture being trapped at the poles as ice proves that global cooling is occurring already.

But the formula for deep ocean blue is rare, occurring in only one out of every several hundred thousand diamonds.

If there are naturally occurring rocks on your site, try to include some of them.

My host appears and walks me over to another building where the interviews are occurring.

The idea is to prevent genocide from occurring in the future.

The blue specks are likely naturally occurring seashell particles or minerals.

It is nice that a rational quantifying of body/mind relationships is occurring.

Who gives a dang if it's natural or not naturally occurring mercury.

Take advantage of some of the great plant sales occurring now or soon, such as the one listed below.

But this shift is also occurring in med school applications and in other fields.

Whereas in many disasters the initial estimates of fatalities prove too high, the opposite is occurring in this case.

Moderately shade tolerant, occurring in open woods and forests.

It would be good to know really what happened there and how to prevent it from occurring again.

Those who are doing it on the left will likely find it occurring on the right soon thereafter.

Other than that, there isn't much stopping this from occurring.

About one percent of the original prairie remains, occurring only in small fragments found among developed areas.

I've witnessed firsthand the widespread destruction of tropical rain forests that is occurring in this country.

For example, a low completer program review is occurring while at the same time a duplication of program review is being done.

Earlier work with the same technique on dogs suffering from a naturally occurring form of blindness has also been successful.

Scientists are unsure about the degree to which this process is occurring today.

Preventing bubbles from occurring at all stifles innovation.

And some intergradation may be occurring now that these subspecies are coming widely into contact.

It's possible the same phenomenon could be occurring with killer whales, although it's too early to know for sure, she added.

Rising college selectivity is a function of excess demand, occurring at a time of financial privatization.

Normally, patents are not granted for naturally occurring phenomena or laws of nature.

Now, scientists have harnessed a group of naturally occurring bacteria to generate.

The compounds are synthetic versions of naturally occurring insecticides called pyrethrins harvested from chrysanthemum flowers.

Mercury is a naturally occurring poisonous metal that is released into the environment from industrial sources.

There are two stories occurring simultaneously that underline.

It is one thing to make a product aimed at a specific, regularly occurring event.

There's an argument to be made for elements occurring later in a sentence to be put in the objective case.

Part of the reputation of witchcraft is almost certainly due to the effects of naturally occurring hallucinogenic drugs.

Meet a man who voluntarily injects himself with mamba venom in order to create naturally occurring snake venom antibodies.

The amount of scattering occurring in the near-infrared region is then related to the water content of the forest canopy.

Visitors also learn about other genocides and acts of hatred occurring today.

Perchlorate is both a naturally occurring and man-made chemical.

We are today called upon to record a brutal murder, occurring in a neighboring town of this county.

One use of be is to mean that something is perpetually occurring.

Job losses in textiles have been occurring throughout the euro-zone for decades.

The scale and pace of extinctions occurring today has few if any precedents in earth's long history.

Enjoy all the celebrations occurring across cultures, religions and wifi networks during this time.

In our digital age, the publicizing of subjective material is occurring with increasing frequency.

In my field there are some shifts occurring in the ways in which fields are structured.

Because of human intervention worldwide, hybridization of both plants and animals is now occurring at much.

There really is a crisis now occurring in the pharmaceutical industry.

Or maybe it's all some subtle racism occurring from the spread of white-dominated fashion industry.

It is not a situation that is occurring because our ridership is down.

Neuro-imaging shows that this deception stimulates the production of naturally occurring painkilling chemicals in the brain.

Usually occurring in volcanic regions, geysers are hot springs that intermittently eject forceful jets of water and steam.

Meetings of this sort have been occurring and usually to the detriment of the non human species.

It should be possible to control a naturally occurring process.

Defaults and consolidations among the top paging companies have been occurring for the past year.

Also, not all librarians are panicked by the changes occurring in the information landscape.

Similar growth is occurring elsewhere, including in countries that previously showed little interest in intellectual property.

But geologists have long been baffled about why they have been occurring in the center of a continental plate.

The difference is that the larger cell is equipped to repair all sorts of regularly occurring insults.

Six percent of its development is occurring within the urban core.

Cobalt is a naturally occurring element in the earth's crust.

The police should patrol hot spots where violence is occurring or might occur.

However, the delay is also occurring because both sides are operating in a legal vacuum.

Few scientists doubt that human-induced global warming is occurring.

The reality of today is that malware attacks are occurring in virtually all venues.

When those extra blood vessels are no longer needed, the body prunes them back to baseline, using naturally occurring inhibitors.

Yale is only one of the many teapots in the national cupboard in which these tempests are occurring.

The media is shackled, and executions are occurring at a rate of almost two a day.

The sound waves register on instruments used to detect earthquakes even when no quakes are occurring.

The published research is growing daily, as clinical trials are occurring around the globe.

There is science occurring all over this imperiled planet that is not environmental in nature.

The series of management shifts came in recent weeks, with many occurring in the last few days.

My point is this shift of burden has been occurring now for several decades.

The transition from clearing to protecting, however, is occurring too slowly.

My guess is that they are occurring with greater frequency in captivity than in nature.

It is a device and not at all the result of naturally occurring phenomena.

And whatever country they are occurring in, the solution is the same.

The data reflect a naturally occurring oscillation in ocean conditions, not a sign of global climate change.

It lists all the events occurring in the city in categories such as restaurants, concerts, etc.

Chemical reactions take place at the same rate whether they are occurring over one metre or one micrometre.

Regularly occurring in medium-size flocks, it mixes sometimes with the white-throated, white.

And if it's occurring to me, it's certainly occurring to people whose job it is to do the work.

The following is a brief sampling of ceremonials occurring on reservations over the next several months.

Needless to say, a series of other disasters and strange events occurring later in the semester necessitated a withdrawal.

But it is occurring much earlier than anyone had expected in middle-income places.

But, he pointed out, this find shows only that seafloor spreading was occurring back then-not other features of plate tectonics.

Notably, groundwater arsenic is the only naturally occurring pollution problem-and it is in ninth place.

Flutter phenomena are seen when vibrations occurring in an aircraft match the natural frequency of the structure.

And who's to say that evolution occurring on such a wide scale by pure chance is really that reasonable.

Indeed, the tremors may have been occurring all along, while scientists simply failed to detect them.

As he pointed out the probability of this ever occurring is in probability terms virtually zero.

And, more recently, researchers have even described a naturally occurring quasicrystal.

However, the shelter has heard anecdotal reports of the phenomenon occurring elsewhere, she said.

High pressure water is pumped down the hole to fracture the granite along naturally occurring planes of weakness.

It's the speed at which it is now occurring that worries researchers.

Much of the food people eat is made of naturally occurring nanoscaled components.

Naturally occurring sulfuric acid seeped into cracks in the limestone, gradually enlarging them to form a honeycomb of chambers.

There are other events occurring in the world that require spending money as well.

Astronomers say this year's planetary convergence is special because it's occurring at a particularly opportune time of day:.

Because of these dynamics radicalization is occurring at the fringes.

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Word Origin & History

occur

1520s, "meet, meet in argument," from M.Fr. occurrer, from L. occurrere "run to meet, run against, befall, present itself," from ob "against, toward" + currere "to run" (see current). Sense development is from "meet" to "present itself" to "appear" to "happen" ("present

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itself in the course of events"). Meaning "to come into one's mind" is from 1620s. Related: Occurred.

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