concur
Americanverb (used without object)
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concurs,
present (3rd person singular)
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concurred,
past participle, past
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concurring
present participle
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to accord in opinion; agree.
Do you concur with his statement?
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to cooperate; work together; combine; be associated.
Members of both parties concurred.
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to coincide; occur at the same time.
His graduation concurred with his birthday.
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Obsolete. to run or come together; converge.
verb
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to agree; be of the same mind; be in accord
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to combine, act together, or cooperate
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to occur simultaneously; coincide
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rare to converge
Synonym Usage
See agree.
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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concursimple
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concurssimple
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have concurredperfect
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has concurredperfect
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am concurringprogressive
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are concurringprogressive
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is concurringprogressive
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have been concurringperfect progressive
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has been concurringperfect progressive
Past
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concurredsimple
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had concurredperfect
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was concurringprogressive
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were concurringprogressive
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had been concurringperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of concur
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Latin concurrere “to run together, meet, be in agreement,” equivalent to con- con- + currere “to run”; cf. concourse, current
Explanation
To concur is to agree or approve of something. If someone says something you agree with, you can say "I concur!" Like many words with con, concur has to do with agreement and being together. When you concur, you agree with someone about something or let them know you approve. "I concur" is a formal (and sometimes humorous) way of saying "I agree!" or "I hear that!" Also, two events that happen at the same time can be said to concur. People are happy when good things concur, like when a birthday and nice weather happen at the same time.
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Example Sentences
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They highlight that restrictive zoning is largely to blame for underproduction relative to job growth and concur that rent control is counterproductive as it discourages the addition of supply, even with strong demand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
I call the day before Christmas Eve “Christmas Adam,” and I concur that it’s a great evening to have a party.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
Sifma hopes the Senate will concur next year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
They wanted the opinion of human doctors, preferably several of them, to concur before they would accept it.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
General Saxton added a note: “I concur fully in the above.”
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
Kenyan security expert George Musamali partly concurs, saying what WhatsApp is doing helps guarantee a user's privacy.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
In “The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity’s Most Devastating Pandemic,” a vivid and sweeping new history of the outbreak, Thomas Asbridge concurs, judging it “the worst natural disaster in recorded history.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
“The Bass campaign concurs with the LA County Registrar saying this issue is false.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Jeronimo concurs: “If Apple can’t get memory, no one else will.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
All concurs, in fine, to prove that he has the most precise information concerning the existence of his grace the Duke of Monmouth.
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh concurred in the outcome based on the federal law that incorporates birthright citizenship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
For the prescriptions renewed by AI, reviewing doctors concurred 91% of the time, with the other 9% saying more information was needed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Bank of America Institute concurred that lower-income households are feeling more stress and cutting back.
From MarketWatch ● May 16, 2026
Skipper Jeremy Williams concurred, but said the errors were fixable.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
Milton considered Marius to be a troublemaker, a view in which many Zebra Room patrons, white and black both, concurred.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Justice Brett Kavanaugh filed an opinion concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Justice Kagan’s opinion, tidy and correct as it is, was made even better with Justice Neil Gorsuch’s genuinely strong concurring opinion.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
Could it have been because concurring Justices other than Thomas and Gorsuch had demanded legal complications that Justice Alito painstakingly included in his opinion?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
“There was no search here,” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote in a concurring opinion that defended the use of this tracking data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
Mamou found us like that, Laleh laughing at the television, me reading my book and concurring with my sister when necessary.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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