recur
to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
to return to the mind: The idea kept recurring.
to come up again for consideration, as a question.
to have recourse.
Origin of recur
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How to use recur in a sentence
These are the hidden and recurring costs of doing business with complex supply chains in a riskier world—and they are only the baseline.
The future will also hold recurring pandemics, climate crises, and shifting racial demographics.
Why We Need a Collective Vision to Design the Future of Health | Abner Mason | November 11, 2020 | Singularity HubThe recurring characteristic in those wins was Tagovailoa’s improvement.
Taulia Tagovailoa responded after a rough opener and now Maryland’s offense is rolling | Emily Giambalvo | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostFor example, say that there is a recurring concern among community members about a particular practice of the police department, community members, um, communicate this to the new commission.
Voters Approved a Much Tougher Police Oversight Board – Now What? | Sara Libby | November 5, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoSassy Justice is the first example of a recurring production that will rely on deepfakes as part of its core premise.
The creators of South Park have a new weekly deepfake satire show | Karen Hao | October 28, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
The crab complaint," he writes, "has recurred more than a dozen times in newspapers around the country.
GOP Aims to Cut $40 Billion Out of Food Stamps to Foil Illusory ‘Cheaters’ | Jamelle Bouie | September 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut his lymphoma recurred and, had he won the nomination and the election, he would have died in office.
It was then that she learned that the cancer had recurred in her bones.
He stamped his foot to the ground in vexation, and recurred to his original determination.
The camping-out at Streetly Wood has annually recurred since that date; the first sham fight took place June 20, 1877.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellIn a flash there recurred to him every incident of those dramatic interviews with the Mephistophelean doctor.
The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le QueuxAs these visions recurred, he thought bitterly that he never had counted upon an hour of trial like the present.
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral | John Dunloe CarteretThen Bassett recurred to the fact, already elicited, that Harwood was a Yale man, whereupon colleges were discussed.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson
British Dictionary definitions for recur
/ (rɪˈkɜː) /
to happen again, esp at regular intervals
(of a thought, idea, etc) to come back to the mind
(of a problem, etc) to come up again
maths (of a digit or group of digits) to be repeated an infinite number of times at the end of a decimal fraction
Origin of recur
1Derived forms of recur
- recurring, adjective
- recurringly, adverb
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