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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Fraser said there was no evidence that disclosure laws specifically were to blame for any violence, and that instead, violence usually occurred to public-facing leaders of organizations.
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Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Previous, non-Trump administrations likely would have ironed out any problems minus the drama; that seems never to have occurred to this White House.
—Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
One thing that occurred to me watching this was that the band started in 1973 and then The Truth About De-Evolution movie comes out in 1976.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2025
That’s been occurring to me a little bit more lately.
—Maria Bamford, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
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Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Previous, non-Trump administrations likely would have ironed out any problems minus the drama; that seems never to have occurred to this White House.
—Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
One thing that occurred to me watching this was that the band started in 1973 and then The Truth About De-Evolution movie comes out in 1976.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2025
That’s been occurring to me a little bit more lately.
—Maria Bamford, Vulture, 24 Sep. 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 30 Sep. 2025.
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