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Recent Examples of co-occurrence
Overlapping risk factors and immune system vulnerability likely explain the co-occurrence of these two cancers.
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Health Editorial Team, Health, 3 Dec. 2025
Health Editorial Team, Health, 3 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for co-occurrence
Noun
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The first occurrence came while playing basketball as a senior in high school.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
25 Apr. 2026
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Despite the uptick in rattlesnake bites, a fatal rattlesnake bite is a rare occurrence.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Chi revolves around a group of residents on the South Side of Chicago who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2026
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The whale cameos were no coincidence.—
Sarah Sekula,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Orlando City heads to the nation’s capital Saturday night looking to prove that a midweek scoring surge was no fluke.—
Kyle Foley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2026
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But even from a distance, the wavelike motion of a whale’s fluke lifting into the air had the power to slow time.—
Hannah Towey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer was an inescapable phenomenon, a Russian-doll-like unfurling of narrative and character that captured how trauma trails us through all phases of our lives.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2026
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Two years later, the midnight-movie adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show transformed it into a cultural phenomenon, fueled by raucous responses, scant costumes and a sense of communal anarchy.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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An irrelevant incident in isolation.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Saturday’s shooting was akin to another deadly incident involving CPD in November 2018 at a hospital in Bronzeville.—
Talia Soglin,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Co-occurrence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/co-occurrence. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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