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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
recur .
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Examples
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The question again recurred, to be answered only with groans.
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Outbreaks of this strain recurred in 1970 and 1972, and may have produced a million fatalities worldwide — despite the fact that another flu eleven years earlier (see #6) is believed to have built up global resistance to the disease.
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Outbreaks of this strain recurred in 1970 and 1972, and may have produced a million fatalities worldwide — despite the fact that another flu eleven years earlier (see #6) is believed to have built up global resistance to the disease.
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Each time that the phrase recurred to me I saw myself a sinner for whom no punishment was adequate.
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Still, the name recurred; and like following golden threads through meshes of green -- all this life was gold and green -- they became fascinated by the tracing of it.
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Each time that the phrase recurred to me I saw myself
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[159] "Ideas, and Shadows of Ideas": the phrase recurred often; and, as such mystic phrases will, fixed itself in Gaston's fancy, though not quite according to the mind of the speaker; accommodated rather to the thoughts which just then preoccupied his own.
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My heart beat fast as the name recurred to my memory.
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They now again recurred to the subject of the Countess and her letter.
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A name has recurred over the course of many years.
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