recur
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In the remaining lore, myths recur of episodes of runaway planetary temperature changes, hot and cold, as well as a series of volcanic blasts that changed the globe.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
David Mitchell has referred to his novels as chapters in an “Über-book” because characters and concepts recur across them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Much of the quarter's profit lift came from tariff refunds that had already come in, a one-off benefit that analysts say won't recur to the same extent.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
But “Kiki” holds several themes that recur in Miyazaki’s work.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
It has been suggested that the major ice ages on our planet, which recur every hundred million years or so, may be due to the interposition of interstellar matter between the Sun and the Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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It’s a story that recurs throughout the centuries and across the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
If the same pattern recurs, employment gains last month could be stronger than expected.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
That conflict between “progress” and “tradition” has never been resolved, and recurs in every generation.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2025
This leads to a sudden reduction in downforce, so the car jumps up, only for the airflow to start working again, the car sucked back down until the same thing recurs.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 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
The Verdie role recurred over the nine seasons the show ran.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025
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
It’s a thematic mix that has recurred, at varying intensities, throughout Lemon’s influential but branding-resistant career.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
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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In the mid-1970s, he had a recurring role as soldier Martin Gimbel in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The Philippines has struggled to restore routine childhood immunisation rates after years of plummeting coverage, which contributed to a polio resurgence in 2019 and recurring measles outbreaks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
SpaceX aims to have a $100 billion in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Moderna’s share price popped in August on positive news about its therapeutic cancer vaccine to prevent melanoma from recurring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Attempting to keep up with her teammates was a recurring theme throughout Brooklyn’s day.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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