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recur

[ri-kur] / rɪˈkɜr /


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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

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

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

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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