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The Verdie role recurred over the nine seasons the show ran.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025

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

After a single injection of one formulation of the treatment, the cancers initially regressed but then recurred.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

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

Till this moment, I had been so intent on watching them, their appearance and conversation had excited in me so keen an interest, I had half-forgotten my own wretched position: now it recurred to me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë