occurrences
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Occurrences increased by 28% between 1990 and 2019, driven largely by increases in the number of adolescents, younger adults and middle-aged adults living with congenital heart diseases.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024
In 1690, one of the earliest American newspapers, Publick Occurrences, published its first - and last - edition in Boston.
From Washington Times • Sep. 25, 2018
The first issue of Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick was printed on this day in 1690.
From Slate • Sep. 25, 2017
In 1769, John Adams gleefully wrote in his diary about spending the evening occupied with “a curious employment. Cooking up Paragraphs, Articles, Occurrences etc. — working the political Engine!”
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2016
Having often observed Occurrences of this Kind, I found it good for me to advise poor People to take such Goods as were most useful and not costly.
From John Woolman's Journal by Woolman, John
