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occurrence

[uh-kur-uhns, uh-kuhr-] / əˈkɜr əns, əˈkʌr- /


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But his Occurrence series, initiated in 2016, provides Byrd a platform to explore the pure intersection of music and movement, without hewing to a particular theme.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2022

The biggest change Macmanus made in his adaptation comes in the fourth episode, “An Occurrence at Randall Kirby’s Sink.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2021

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” can now be read as fanciful, empathetic, and elegiac.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 11, 2015

And they toss away all plausibility for the final scene — unless that’s a reference to Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”

From Time • Sep. 9, 2014

Fauquier also observed that economic uncertainties had made Virginians "uneasy, peevish, and ready to murmur at every Occurrence."

From The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 by Virginia. History, Government, and Geography Service




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