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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
occur .
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Examples
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The disclosure of her name occurs near the end of that delightful story, just before Lulamae, like Lillie Mae, abandons the apprentice writer.
Strange, If Tru James Campbell 2011
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A muzhik is a Russian peasant; the word occurs often in the stories of Isaac Babel, which Carver greatly admired.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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The term occurs in Proclus, but in different contexts.
Olympiodorus Wildberg, Christian 2007
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An exhaustive concordance will tell you every single time a word occurs in the Bible.
The Busy Mom’s Guide to Bible Study Lisa Whelchel 2007
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(Oeuvres, XII, 516); a similar use of the term occurs frequently in the nineteenth century and then in con - nection with the Communist Revolution.
REVOLUTION FELIX GILBERT 1968
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In Wilhelm Scherer's standard Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (1883) the term occurs only in the
CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968
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Rhythmical "gymnastics," in the natural meaning of the word, is a part of the Dalcroze training, and a not unimportant part, but it is only one application of a much wider principle; and accordingly, where the term occurs in the following pages, it must be understood simply as denoting
The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
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The term occurs in a grant of an annuity of Oct. 19. 2
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The term occurs thirty-one times in the New Testament, but it does not appear once in the Gospels.
Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Archibald B. C. Alexander
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The term occurs forty-seven times in the New Testament, and it is translated thirty-eight times by the words _turn_ and _return_.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880 Various
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