Thesaurus results for CO-OCCURRENCE

co-occurrence

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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. — Health Editorial Team, Health, 3 Dec. 2025

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Noun

During the 1990s, mafia-style killings of public figures were a common occurrence in Bulgaria.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
War souvenirs are a largely universal occurrence, Dickey said, and World War II saw Americans returning home with plenty of mementos from Europe, including Nazi paraphernalia like pins and insignias.

— Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026

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The collection ultimately reveals not just a four-song fluke but three fiercely ambitious young writers inventing themselves in real time.

— Cary Baker, SPIN, 20 Oct. 2026
Detroit Pistons — Prove last year wasn’t a fluke — the Pistons were the best team in the East by record last season.

— OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026

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The health emergency caused demand for fuel to crash to the point that the world ran out of room to store oil, a phenomenon that briefly drove crude oil futures below zero for the first time ever.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
In 1980, to better understand this phenomenon, the mathematician and economist Graciela Chichilnisky turned to topology, an area of math in which shapes are considered equivalent if one can be stretched into another without tearing.

— Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026

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