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"By targeting N4BP2 or the pathways it activates, we may be able to limit the genomic chaos that allows tumors to adapt, recur and become drug-resistant."

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026

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

In fact, they are a feature of the landscape, exacerbated by our fire suppression practices, and will recur reliably, as they have forever.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

It has been suggested that the major ice ages on our planet, which recur every hundred million years or so, may be due to the interposition of interstellar matter between the Sun and the Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan