recurred; recurring
1
: to have recourse : resort
2
: to go back in thought or discourse
on recurring to my letters of that date—
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson3
a
: to come up again for consideration
b
: to come again to mind
4
: to occur again after an interval : occur time after time
the cancer recurred
Examples of recur in a Sentence
There is only a slight chance that the disease will recur.
The same problem keeps recurring.
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Jon Stojan, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Fiscal 2020 – 2025 Existing User Upsells Are Slowing Too
As GitLab converts fewer free users to paid users, the recurring revenue generated by existing users is growing at slower rates in recent years.
—David Trainer, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
People often conflate Agartha with Hyperborea, a land of eternal sunshine in Greek mythology that’s been a recurring obsession for the alt-right.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2025
Yet in this example below — a recurring theme of the night — no one else is attacking the space between the lines or providing quick, unpredictable off-ball movements.
—Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
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“Recur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recur. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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recur
verb
re·cur
ri-ˈkər 
recurred; recurring
1
: to go or come back in thought or discussion
2
: to come again into the mind
3
: to occur or appear again
Medical Definition
recur
intransitive verb
re·cur
ri-ˈkər
recurred; recurring
: to occur again after an interval
a disease likely to recur
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