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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.
Chapter 13 2010
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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.
The Next Plague? 2005
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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.
The Next Plague? 2005
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Each time that the phrase recurred to me I saw myself a sinner for whom no punishment was adequate.
Youth 2003
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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.
Son of Power Zamin Ki Dost 1905
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Each time that the phrase recurred to me I saw myself
Youth Leo Tolstoy 1869
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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.
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866
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My heart beat fast as the name recurred to my memory.
The Law and the Lady Wilkie Collins 1856
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They now again recurred to the subject of the Countess and her letter.
The Castle of Wolfenbach Eliza 1793
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A name has recurred over the course of many years.
The Lovers John Connolly 2009
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