recur
Example Sentences
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This pattern of capital flight would recur throughout American history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
Stella said he did not expect the problem to recur at this weekend's Qatar Grand Prix.
From BBC • Nov. 27, 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
Although astronomers have not observed any nova events in this system in recent history, such outbursts often recur every few thousand years.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025
Nonetheless, visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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