recur
verb (used without object)
to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
have recurred
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present perfectof recur.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Cruise said it determined "a similar collision with a risk of serious injury could have recurred every 10 million to 100 million miles of driving on average prior to the software update."
From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2023
Since then, those diseases have recurred only in discrete communities where vaccine resistance reigns, and among the unvaccinated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
Engineers and image processors also adopted new conventions that have recurred in fictional and real-world depictions of the cosmos ever since.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
Researchers and experts studying mass violence have found a series of common elements, many of which appear to have recurred in Buffalo.
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2022
The philosophical whigs and radicals, trained in the school of Bentham, and untainted as yet by a false philanthropy, found themselves in possession of an opportunity which might never have recurred.
From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by George C. (George Charles) Brodrick
