recur
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But “Kiki” holds several themes that recur in Miyazaki’s work.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Sirinya is worried that such a tragedy could recur "because there are so many of these pubs".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Once fully built, data centers typically require relatively few employees to operate them, raising the prospect that at least some of the commerce that yielded this year’s mega-bonuses won’t recur.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Tillmans’ interest in stargazing goes back to his adolescence, and images of the moon and cosmos recur in his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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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The pattern recurs: firms scale first; law and politics arrive later, often together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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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
The Verdie role recurred over the nine seasons the show ran.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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
Though the wound in her head had healed, she was subject to periods of troubled sleep, she had strange dreams which recurred night after night.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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Annual recurring revenue from the company’s Agentforce and Data 360 products grew over 210% relative to a year earlier, to just shy of $3.9 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
But he says he doesn’t think about the recurring themes in his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Yuan said Zoom’s artificial intelligence-focused portfolio continues to scale, helping annual recurring revenue expand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The irony is that, according to the newspaper’s own security team, Attiah herself had been a recurring target of threats and security monitoring since 2018, with dozens of threat assessments being sent to her.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
He continued to have recurring attacks of malaria and painful abscesses in his leg.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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