Definitions

reoccur

VERB

return

Synonyms

WEAK

come back go back hark back inverse invert lapse recrudesce recur regress relapse resume retrograde retrogress revert

VERB

recur

Synonyms

WEAK

be remembered be repeated come again come and go come back crop up again haunt thoughts iterate persist reappear recrudesce reiterate repeat return return to mind revert run through one's mind turn back

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Do the themes in your collages reoccur in your poetry, music or films?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025

There are deterministic relationships in which certain genes go well or badly with other particular genes, and so similar patterns of genes reoccur.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2024

Once heart failure has occurred, it has a tendency to reoccur along with other health issues, such as kidney and muscle problems.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2024

The CAA said the event "is now understood and should it reoccur would be fixed quickly with no effect to the aviation system".

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2023

Astragalus, and Peganum, are the most common; Muscoides, Plantaginacea reoccur, a curious leaved Composita? 10th.—Halted yesterday, and went out along the banks of the Turnuk: where I found twenty-six species not obtained before.

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William

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