occurrence

1530–40; <Latin occurrent-, stem of occurrēns (present participle of occurrere “to run up to, run to meet”), from oc- (variant of ob- ; see ob-) + currere “to run” + -ence; compare Medieval Latin occurrentia

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2. See event.

OTHER WORDS FROM occurrence

oc·cur·rent, adjectivepre·oc·cur·rence, nounre·oc·cur·rence, noun

How to use occurrence in a sentence

Their inevitable divorce was messy, bitter, and packed with bizarre occurrences.
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else|Allen Barra|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Refinery management had normalized the occurrences of hazardous conditions.
Oil Tankers Leaking into Seattle’s Water|Bill Conroy|October 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Botched executions are neither freak occurrences nor unfortunate accidents.
Lethal Injection Leads to the Most Botched Executions|Austin Sarat, Robert Henry Weaver, Heather Richard|April 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Soon the town was flooded with Rwandans and foreigners eager to observe the supernatural occurrences.
Did the Virgin Mary Warn Rwanda’s Holiest Town of the Genocide?|Nina Strochlic|April 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST

I heard that some strange occurrences went down while filming…is that true?
Neve Campbell on ‘Mad Men,’ ‘90s Nostalgia, and Why the ‘Scream’ Movie Franchise is Over|Marlow Stern|April 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mr. D. Nasmith employed a clerk in finding the number of occurrences of the same word in three books.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
When I was a young man, of course such things were frequent occurrences; but manners are changed now.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3)|Charles James Wills
What events for importance are comparable to the occurrences connected with his sojourn on earth?
The Ordinance of Covenanting|John Cunningham
The disclosures thus made, immediately recalled certain similar occurrences in the same district during October/November 1952.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents|Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
This attitude of the scientific world toward these problematical occurrences is quite comprehensible.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris

British Dictionary definitions for occurrence

occurrence

/ (əˈkʌrəns) /

noun

something that occurs; a happening; event

the act or an instance of occurringa crime of frequent occurrence

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