recur
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Tillmans’ interest in stargazing goes back to his adolescence, and images of the moon and cosmos recur in his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
These alternately grave and impish modes recur throughout the show, aptly subtitled “Serious Play,” often combining in a single image.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
It is classified as high risk when tumors are more likely to recur or spread into the bladder's muscle layer or to other areas of the body.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
"However, to ensure that such failures never recur, a broader understanding is needed -- one that encompasses the inter-organisational and inter-hierarchical interfaces that have not yet been examined," he added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025
People stopped sleeping in their houses, terrified at the thought that such a disaster could recur, improvising tents in open spaces or sleeping in the middle of squares and streets.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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The brilliance of these pairings recurs throughout the show, which is more than a curatorial coup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
It's a theme that recurs on subsequent tracks - perhaps suggesting that BTS were wary about dipping their toes back into the choppy waters of fame.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
If the same pattern recurs, employment gains last month could be stronger than expected.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
That bracing fusion recurs in gallery after gallery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
The pyramid shape recurs throughout history and in diverse cultures, many of which have thought the shape itself had magic powers.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
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Insurance company Allianz modeled how countries would fare if the five hottest years each experienced between 2014 and 2024 recurred in succession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
As someone who has always had a masochistic streak, finding out that these sequences of cars speeding down darkened paths recurred in Lynch’s other works both delighted and horrified me.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025
I told him so when I recurred on The Odd Couple.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
And the speed with which the disease, pancreatic cancer, often recurred could work to the scientists’ advantage: For better or worse, they would find out soon whether the vaccine helped.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
It might not kill, but it weakened and it recurred and it could lower one’s resistance to other diseases.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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History has a recurring role at the Supreme Court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
The trial examined the role of Wainua, a gene silencer treatment, on top of today’s standard of care in reducing recurring cardiovascular events and mortality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The fear of returning to live in the building where the earthquake occurred is also a recurring theme.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
A major recurring theme at the past few major tournaments has been about whether Ronaldo should start.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
He continued to have recurring attacks of malaria and painful abscesses in his leg.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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