recur
Example Sentences
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This pattern of capital flight would recur throughout American history.
Yet Miles’ experience highlights a recurring problem: Native Americans, the first inhabitants of what is now the United States, are sometimes treated as foreigners by the very government their ancestors predated.
From Salon
After examining patterns of brain activity, Tafazoli and Buschman found that the prefrontal cortex, a region at the front of the brain involved in high-level thinking and decision-making, contained several recurring patterns of activity.
From Science Daily
Lending is on the rise across almost every division at Goldman, part of the company’s goal to increase recurring revenue streams.
“Jaws,” released in America two years earlier, is still playing in the city of Recife, and the use of the toothy fish as a recurring motif suggests all norms are on hold while sharks rule.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.