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

It is classified as high risk when tumors are more likely to recur or spread into the bladder's muscle layer or to other areas of the body.

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

"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

"I think it demonstrates the level of anxiety on both the Department of Health, and us in RQIA, to ensure what occurred and reported under the Nicholl report will never recur."

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025

People stopped sleeping in their houses, terrified at the thought that such a disaster could recur, improvising tents in open spaces or sleeping in the middle of squares and streets.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende