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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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For Hale and his group, known as People’s Vision Zero, the work was an improvement and long overdue in a part of Los Angeles where cars hitting pedestrians is an all too common occurrence.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
The scale of the decline triggered a circuit breaker, temporarily halting trading on the exchange — a frequent occurrence this year in a stock market dominated by just two stocks.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of occurrence

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This phenomenon is called the collapse of the wave function, and the resulting physical picture is known as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.

— Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Scientists have long known about Kelvin waves, but this year, the phenomena grabbed the public's attention with video explanations receiving thousands of views across TikTok and X.

— Ava Berger, NPR, 19 Oct. 2026

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The incident follows a spate of drone attacks on at least seven cargo vessels off the Black Sea coasts of NATO members Romania and Bulgaria in October.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
Wichita Mayor Lily Wu said on her personal Facebook page that the incident left her filled with sorrow.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026

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