occur to
phrasal verb
occurred to; occurring to; occurs to
: to be thought of by (someone)
An idea just occurred to me.
It suddenly occurred to her that there was a simpler way to deal with the problem.
Did it never occur to you to ask for help?
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Linda's goal was to tweak the changes that had occurred to her facial features due to aging.
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Michelle Lee, People.com, 7 May 2025
Ruth wants Prima to make a moral judgment about Heiss’s behavior, to see it as a perhaps exploitative abuse of power—a kind of judgment that hadn’t previously occurred to Prima.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
Some third thing of significance that hasn’t yet occurred to me?
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 2 May 2025
In the rainforest, much deforestation occurs to clear land to grow crops in a conventional monoculture system, which severely lacks any biodiversity.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
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Michelle Lee, People.com, 7 May 2025
Ruth wants Prima to make a moral judgment about Heiss’s behavior, to see it as a perhaps exploitative abuse of power—a kind of judgment that hadn’t previously occurred to Prima.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
Some third thing of significance that hasn’t yet occurred to me?
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 2 May 2025
In the rainforest, much deforestation occurs to clear land to grow crops in a conventional monoculture system, which severely lacks any biodiversity.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for occur to
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“Occur to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/occur%20to. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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