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Ireland centre Garry Ringrose withdrew from the British and Irish Lions starting line-up for the second Test in Australia, telling coaches that symptoms from a head knock a fortnight earlier had recurred.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 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

"At the end of the AHP, we observed at least 14 dry events in the short cores from Chew Bahir, each of which lasted 20-80 years and recurred at intervals of 160±40 years," says Trauth.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2024

I told him so when I recurred on The Odd Couple.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2023

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse