occurs
Example Sentences
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El Niño occurs every two to seven years and usually lasts about a year.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Increasingly, security executives say, the primary bottleneck occurs after those flaws are uncovered.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The team found that motor control in fruit flies mostly occurs locally.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
With better global health, development, and humanitarian assistance—with an ongoing connection to these communities—these kinds of interventions could happen faster, even, ideally, before an outbreak occurs.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
Then it occurs to me that she hasn’t imagined anything worse than this.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
