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recur

[ri-kur] / rɪˈkɜr /


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But “Kiki” holds several themes that recur in Miyazaki’s work.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

Long-simmering frustration over the state's lack of accountability created the conditions for this "implosion", he told the BBC, adding that the architecture of social media makes such eruptions likely to recur.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

These changes do not always mean cancer is present, but they should be evaluated if they continue or recur.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

“I got the audition last year, about April,” Callan recalled, “just to recur. And I said, ‘This is silly, they’re not going to cast a Los Angeles actor to go recur in Massachusetts.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

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

The pattern recurs: firms scale first; law and politics arrive later, often together.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

If the same pattern recurs, employment gains last month could be stronger than expected.

From MarketWatch Jan. 7, 2026

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 metaphor of the double-coin knot recurs throughout the novel; each passenger is on his or her journey through time and space.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 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

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

Adler also recurred on FX’s “Rescue Me” as fire chief Sidney Feinberg and appeared in series ranging from “Northern Exposure” and “Mad About You” to “Transparent” and “Broad City.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 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

Cambridgeshire's area coroner Elizabeth Gray recorded a conclusion of death from natural causes, and said Bennell had a history of throat cancer from 2004, which recurred in 2016.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2024

Though the wound in her head had healed, she was subject to periods of troubled sleep, she had strange dreams which recurred night after night.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

The company recently reached $1 million in annualized recurring revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

It reveals a recurring pattern in which evolutionary innovations appeared, disappeared, and later emerged again.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

Some hospitals that provide emergency medical services but not trauma care, including Catalina Island Health and MLK hospital, are pushing for the county to help them by providing recurring disbursements of Measure B funds.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

As of the end of July, over 50% of paid customers with more than $10,000 in annual recurring revenue were using the Figma agent on a weekly basis, according to the company.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

His recurring illness had turned out to be appendicitis.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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