co-occurrences

noun

plural of co-occurrence
as in occurrences

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for co-occurrences
  1. occurrences
  2. things
  3. phenomena
  4. incidents
  5. episodes
  6. flukes
  7. pages
Noun
  • Neither immediately confirmed the animals had washed ashore, though a DEP spokesperson said such occurrences are not uncommon.
    — Ross DiMattei, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • In addition, this upcoming season will mark the third time that the Heat has played on Christmas in the last decade, with the other occurrences coming in 2020 and 2023.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of occurrences
Noun
  • The City of Atlanta and Fulton County’s Board of Commissioners have been trading negotiations over the sale of the Atlanta City Detention Center, and things have started to get ugly.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The month of August offers some respite, a chance to reflect and reset before September kicks things into gear once more.
    — Sophie Lou Wilson, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of things
Noun
  • While the eclipse will give skywatchers a chance to safely marvel at the rare phenomena, some scientists will use it as an opportunity to better understand the sun.
    — Chandelis Duster, NPR, 8 Aug. 2026
  • La Grange Park is in its 22nd year of participating and one of 156 Illinois towns to participate in the event, that grew from being a small neighborhood gathering in suburban Pennsylvania to a national phenomena.
    — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of phenomena
Noun
  • The Southern Omani route, an alternative temporary corridor in the strait, remains the highest-risk, accounting for 16 of 18 projectile strike incidents reported by the UKMTO since July 6.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The Institute for Justice, a nonprofit law firm specializing in civil liberties cases, identified over 100 incidents of automatic license plate reader abuse, including stalking and wrongful stops.
    — Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of incidents
Noun
  • Something extraordinary these episodes illustrate, in our view, is the vulnerability of America’s highly interconnected fresh-food supply chain, in which one grower or supplier problem can ripple astonishingly far.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Symptoms Symptoms typically emerge between two weeks and a year after birth, although about 90% of episodes happen within four weeks.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of episodes
Noun
  • Their odds of winning the World Series – a famously finicky task prone to small sample size flukes – were over 25%, one-in-four for one of baseball’s 30 teams.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • These moments are not flukes either.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 26 June 2026
Definition of flukes
Noun
  • Dozens of pages of documents describe agents secretly infiltrating meetings, monitoring activist chat groups and using license plate numbers to compile names of people who attended gatherings.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Latta is an interior designer, and stepping into her front sitting room is like stepping into the pages of Architectural Digest.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of pages
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