recur

as in to renew
to occur again She had a recurring dream in which she could fly.

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Recent Examples of recur This year’s proposition builds on that measure by creating a recurring payment of $1 billion dollars to the fund starting in September 2027. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2025 Grijalva trapped in the waiting place Press conferences are not the only recurring agenda item on Capitol Hill amid the government shutdown. Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2025 Sbarge can currently be seen recurring on HBO’s Task opposite Mark Ruffalo and in Oliver Hermanus’ historical romance drama The History of Sound, playing Paul Mescal’s father which premiered at Cannes. Denise Petski, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025 American exceptionalism is a recurring theme that runs throughout Karp’s oeuvre. Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for recur
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  • Brooklyn and Nicola married in April 2022 and renewed their wedding vows this past August.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In mid-June, they were relieved to learn that their home insurance would be renewed—but their annual premium was going up by a thousand dollars.
    Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • Scientists predicted then that these mass mortality events would reoccur more and more frequently as temperatures continued to increase due to global heating.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Hood did not file the lawsuit, reportedly because OpenAI ensured the fake result would not reoccur.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Recur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recur. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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