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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In the rainforest, much deforestation occurs to clear land to grow crops in a conventional monoculture system, which severely lacks any biodiversity.
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Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
The same process occurs to cyclones on Earth, and is the result of the Coriolis force interacting with the whirling wind pattern belonging to each cyclone.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 Apr. 2025
This is already occurring to some degree; Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's outreach to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has been rebuffed, and inter-agency groups formed during the previous administration are now stalled.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Because firearms suddenly increase in availability and access in the lead up to hunting season, a similar opportunity occurs to study what happens with firearm incidents—both hunting and non-hunting related.
—Time, 16 Apr. 2025
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Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
The same process occurs to cyclones on Earth, and is the result of the Coriolis force interacting with the whirling wind pattern belonging to each cyclone.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 Apr. 2025
This is already occurring to some degree; Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's outreach to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has been rebuffed, and inter-agency groups formed during the previous administration are now stalled.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Because firearms suddenly increase in availability and access in the lead up to hunting season, a similar opportunity occurs to study what happens with firearm incidents—both hunting and non-hunting related.
—Time, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Occur to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/occur%20to. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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