as in renewed
to occur again
She had a recurring dream in which she could fly.
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Recent Examples of recurred
Pruitt recurred on both Starz’s BMF and ABC’s Will Trent.
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2026
As its title implies, Suits LA moved the action of the original from the Big Apple to Tinseltown, and followed a new group of legal eagles led by Amell's Ted, who was revealed to have a connection to Suits' Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht, who recurred in several episodes on the spinoff).
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
In 2008-09, Van Der Beek recurred as movie director Adam Reese on The CW’s One Tree Hill, then took his first regular series role since Dawson’s Creek in 2010, playing the head of the ICU on the NBC medical drama Mercy (the show lasted one season).
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
But, in the third section, the motifs that have recurred, albeit modestly, in the two earlier ones now burst out to dominate the action and, in the process, cast the previous stories in their retrospective light.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Managing the nation’s 1,900-mile border with Mexico is daunting even without surges of migrants that have repeatedly recurred in recent years, the DOJ said in its filing.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 17 Nov. 2025
Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2026
As its title implies, Suits LA moved the action of the original from the Big Apple to Tinseltown, and followed a new group of legal eagles led by Amell's Ted, who was revealed to have a connection to Suits' Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht, who recurred in several episodes on the spinoff).
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
In 2008-09, Van Der Beek recurred as movie director Adam Reese on The CW’s One Tree Hill, then took his first regular series role since Dawson’s Creek in 2010, playing the head of the ICU on the NBC medical drama Mercy (the show lasted one season).
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
But, in the third section, the motifs that have recurred, albeit modestly, in the two earlier ones now burst out to dominate the action and, in the process, cast the previous stories in their retrospective light.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Managing the nation’s 1,900-mile border with Mexico is daunting even without surges of migrants that have repeatedly recurred in recent years, the DOJ said in its filing.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 17 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recurred
renewed
Verb
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The university said the employee's contract had expired and was not renewed.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
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The sudden progress has renewed interest in the problem.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Recurred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recurred. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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