recurrence

[ ri-kur-uhns, -kuhr- ]

noun

Origin of recurrence

First recorded in 1640–50; recur + -ence

So fearing a recurrence of the twisties can perpetuate the problem.
Simone Biles and Why We All Get the 'Twisties' (Even If We Can't Fly) | Susanna Schrobsdorff | August 2, 2021 | Time
Understanding how atrocities happen is crucial to preventing their recurrence.
What’s the Point of Trying to Understand Ghislaine Maxwell? | Judy Berman | June 24, 2021 | Time
Hormone-blocking drugs can now cut the chance of recurrence.
This chart shows how far we’ve come in fighting cancer | Eleanor Cummins | December 3, 2020 | Popular-Science
We worry about the effectiveness and tolerability of treatment and about symptom recurrence.
Thank You for the 7 PM Clapping, But Camaraderie Is Needed More Than Ever - Facts So Romantic | Ayala Danzig | October 5, 2020 | Nautilus
Taku SEKINE ended his life, swept away by a serious depression following his public questioning - on social networks and on a specialized site - with a recurrence akin to real relentlessness.
Chef Behind Parisian New-Wave Hit Dersou Dies | Eileen W. Cho | September 29, 2020 | Eater

There is an old Jewish joke about the recurrence of the biblical flood.
Time To Stop Demonizing The One-State Solution | Daniel Gavron | April 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
The 91-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II was rushed to hospital on Wednesday with a recurrence of the infection.
Philip Out of Hospital | Tom Sykes | August 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Worse, the recurrence of this whiny, unsympathetic caricature in a writer's work makes an unpleasant statement about the writer.
Why Crime Novelists Don't Get Women | Christopher Rice | April 12, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
In other diseases, like diphtheria and pneumonia, they are soon lost,—hence the recurrence of such diseases.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley
My weary shoulders fairly ache as we pass through the constant, or tri-yearly, recurrence of the same experience.
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral | John Dunloe Carteret
The monotony, the incessant recurrence, had a disastrous effect on her nerves, suggesting wild and desperate impulses.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona Caird
The 'periodic recurrence of intervals' here spoken of may be illustrated on the key-board of a piano.
The Modes of Ancient Greek Music | David Binning Monro
We had things to eat I had never dreamed of, and may I be spared a recurrence of them in my future dreams!
Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2 | Ida May Hill Starr

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