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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of curr.

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Examples

  • Constantinople: 58 but his liberality, however it might excite the applause of the people, has in curred the censure of posterity.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual

    Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse: 1782

  • Such a complication had never oc - curred to her, and in truth she was somewhat jealous of the manner his society allowed him to step into an adult emula - tion so young.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • She knew that, had she been on Crematoria, that oversight would not have oc-curred.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • This was true despite contact with the enemy, which for the independent tank battalions oc - curred as early as 29 December 1942, when the Afrika Rorps mauled a platoon of Company A, 70th Tank Battalion, north - east of Pichon, Tunisia.

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • Flint wondered briefly what had caused the curious scratches around the lip, but the answers that oc - curred to him quickly made him drop that line of thinking.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • And once he cleared his mind of emotion, something else oc-curred to him at long last.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • "Yes, sir," Tenmei said, and Nog noticed, not for the first time, the change to the ensign's voice that oc-curred every time she had to address Vaughn.

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • It never oc - curred to him to question whether he was being misled.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • If he hadn't been so rattled by the collision/confrontation, it might have oc-curred to him that in leaving by the way he'd entered he damned himself more thoroughly than he could have with any number of words.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

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