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If supercooled water has a critical point, that could indicate that the water experienced in daily life is strange because, under typical pressures and temperatures, it is a supercritical liquid — a weird state that occurs beyond a critical point.

Six of these extinctions occurred simultaneously throughout their geographic range immediately following magnetic reversals.

This kind of behavior does occur outside the lab, says Jaap de Roode, a biologist at Emory University in Atlanta who wasn’t involved in the research.

The finding, reported online November 18 in Biology Letters, potentially illustrates that “island dwarfism,” where animals evolve to be much smaller after settling on an island, can occur over very short timescales.

One possible culprit was an environmental crisis that occurred toward the end of the Early Jurassic, an episode of global warming and ocean acidification that led to a series of species extinctions, particularly in the oceans but also on land.

Unfortunately, the issue is almost completely ignored in the U.S., even though it is occurring here as well.

Either way, this is a conversation that is occurring not just at the penthouse level, but among the grassroots as well.

Some of the areas are quite remote, where this is occurring.

That, America, is the quintessence of naturally occurring British-cute.

Two 20th-century phenomena, occurring in quick succession, are the culprits.

His birth might also be remembered as occurring in the same year as that of the great astronomer Galileo.

It cannot, however, be looked upon as anything more than a very rare occasional straggler, by no means occurring every year.

Professor Ansted mentions it in his list, but only as occurring in Guernsey, and there is one specimen in the Museum.

Read simpilly; this trisyllabic form is Northern, occurring in Barbour's Bruce, i. 331, xvii.

The explanation of the phrase 'farewell feldefare,' occurring in Troil.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to occurring, such as: materialize, develop, appear, show, transpire, and ensue.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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