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recur

Main Entry:: re·cur
Pronunciation:: \ri-ˈkər\
Function:: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s):: re·curred; re·cur·ring
Etymology:: Middle English recurren to return, from Latin recurrere, literally, to run back, from re- + currere to run — more at car
Date:: 1529

1: to have recourse : resort2: to go back in thought or discourse <on recurring to my letters of that date — Thomas Jefferson>3 a: to come up again for consideration b: to come again to mind4: to occur again after an interval : occur time after time <the cancer recurred>

— re·cur·rence

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\-ˈkər-ən(t)s, -ˈkə-rən(t)s\ noun

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