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

"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

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

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