recur
verb (used without object)
to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
recurred
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past participleof recur.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof recur.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
recurverb (used without object)to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
Example Sentences
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Insurance company Allianz modeled how countries would fare if the five hottest years each experienced between 2014 and 2024 recurred in succession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
Cambridgeshire's area coroner Elizabeth Gray recorded a conclusion of death from natural causes, and said Bennell had a history of throat cancer from 2004, which recurred in 2016.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2024
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
Finally, Sequoyah realized that words were made up of modest numbers of different sound bites that recurred in many different words—what we would call syllables.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
