occur
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"At first I just felt dizzy -- it didn't occur to me it was an earthquake, I'd never experienced that before," Carmel Delgado, a 47‑year‑old economist, told AFP.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Pfizer is hopeful that the experimental drug can lessen the side effects like nausea and diarrhea that occur with GLP-1s.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
I have ordered protein powder in America that took longer to arrive than the entire Maltese national election took to occur.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026
Previous research had already shown that PAM variants occur more often in people with diabetes.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
What Dr. Mann will suggest much later—that maybe she was trying to say what she needed to say without saying what she needed to say—doesn’t occur to her.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Make a Run for It: Cur, Curs
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Common Five-letter Words for Wordle, List 4
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