Example Sentences

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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

Some of these scenarios' accompanying sights have recurred frequently to become central to our apocalyptic visual lexicon: planes dropping from the sky, highways choked by lifeless cars or riderless horses.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2021

Again and again you have recurred to my thoughts lately, and I was beginning to have some sad presages as to the cause of your silence. 

From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King