have occasion to
Example Sentences
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“How far is too far, in scrubbing away a history so that we won’t remember it wrong – or, indeed, have occasion to remember it at all?” asked Mark Summers, a University of Kentucky professor.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2020
PhDD: Person who might have occasion to say, “Excuse me, my brain is up here.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2019
We don’t often have occasion to mention art exhibitions here, but a new show at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art deserves special recognition.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2018
Since these precedents are accepted, states and citizens do not file, and lower court judges do have occasion to hear, cases challenging them, thereby placing them on the superprecedent list.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2018
These were people who mostly didn’t know one another and would never have occasion to meet, many of whom I’d fallen out of touch with myself.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
