recur
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In the remaining lore, myths recur of episodes of runaway planetary temperature changes, hot and cold, as well as a series of volcanic blasts that changed the globe.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
David Mitchell has referred to his novels as chapters in an “Über-book” because characters and concepts recur across them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
As the crowd filed out of the Herzog, one reaction seemed to recur more than any other: “That was wild.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Much of the quarter's profit lift came from tariff refunds that had already come in, a one-off benefit that analysts say won't recur to the same extent.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Nonetheless, visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Triple-negative breast cancer recurs and spreads after an average of around 2½ years, compared with five years for other breast cancers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
If the same pattern recurs, employment gains last month could be stronger than expected.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
That conflict between “progress” and “tradition” has never been resolved, and recurs in every generation.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2025
This leads to a sudden reduction in downforce, so the car jumps up, only for the airflow to start working again, the car sucked back down until the same thing recurs.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
I have one dream that recurs far too often.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Insurance company Allianz modeled how countries would fare if the five hottest years each experienced between 2014 and 2024 recurred in succession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
So it's interesting that it recurred on the McLaren in Las Vegas.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
As someone who has always had a masochistic streak, finding out that these sequences of cars speeding down darkened paths recurred in Lynch’s other works both delighted and horrified me.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025
Since then, those diseases have recurred only in discrete communities where vaccine resistance reigns, and among the unvaccinated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
It might not kill, but it weakened and it recurred and it could lower one’s resistance to other diseases.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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There before him was a literal snapshot of his checking and savings account balances, various construction costs for a house project, and recurring charges for Netflix and car insurance, courtesy of his agent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
In the mid-1970s, he had a recurring role as soldier Martin Gimbel in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The Philippines has struggled to restore routine childhood immunisation rates after years of plummeting coverage, which contributed to a polio resurgence in 2019 and recurring measles outbreaks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
She also used what she learned in the class to help her mother set up auto-pay on recurring payments and increase her credit score so that she could qualify for a car loan.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
I’d had a recurring dream about Sing Sing that took place in this tunnel at night.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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