recur

recur (rɪˈkɜː)

—vb , -curs, -curring, -curred
1.	to happen again, esp at regular intervals
2.	(of a thought, idea, etc) to come back to the mind
3.	(of a problem, etc) to come up again
4.	maths (of a digit or group of digits) to be repeated an infinite number of times at the end of a decimal fraction

[C15: from Latin recurrere, from re- + currere to run]

re'curring

—*adj*

re'curringly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

recur

mid-15c., from L. recurrere "to return, come back," from re- "back, again" + currere "to run" (see current). Originally of persons; application to thoughts, ideas, etc. is recorded from 1704.

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Medical Dictionary

recur re·cur (rĭ-kûr')
v. re·curred, re·cur·ring, re·curs

To happen, come up, or show up again or repeatedly.
To return to one's attention or memory.

Example sentences

It would take a much less hardline political mood than the present one for them

to recur.

Should insomnia recur after formal therapy ends, patients have the tools to

make corrections on their own.

It is a little remarkable, the regularity with which political cycles recur.

They say the effects of the two droughts are likely to be transient, but only

if similar events do not recur anytime soon.

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"In the marriage ceremony, that moment when falling in love is replaced by the arduous drama of staying in love, the words "for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health,' til death us do part" set love in the temporal context in which it achieves its meaning. As time begins to elapse, one begins to love the other because they have shared the same experience, the same moments of duration. Selves may not intertwine but lives do, and shared memory becomes as much of a bond as the bond of the flesh. One might say shared memory is not love itself but a consequence of being in love; but in what people commonly say about long-lasting love, it is the attitudes toward time implied in such words such as constancy and fidelity that recur."

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