recur

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The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, which compiles the CPI, seasonally adjusts the results to erase patterns that recur each year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

"However, to ensure that such failures never recur, a broader understanding is needed -- one that encompasses the inter-organisational and inter-hierarchical interfaces that have not yet been examined," he added.

From Barron's • Nov. 10, 2025

Although astronomers have not observed any nova events in this system in recent history, such outbursts often recur every few thousand years.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025

Ms Donaghy said there was "anxiety" within the watchdog and Stormont's Department of Health to ensure what happened would "never recur".

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025

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