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recur

[ri-kur] / rɪˈkɜr /


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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

"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

"I think it demonstrates the level of anxiety on both the Department of Health, and us in RQIA, to ensure what occurred and reported under the Nicholl report will never recur."

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025

The pattern would recur over and over, but there was an important exception.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik