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Recent Examples of recurrent The symptoms have become so recurrent that the girl’s parents spend sleepless nights taking turns monitoring and caring for her. Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 12 June 2025 In some cases, however, pellagra proved to be a recurrent disease, flaring up again once patients returned home and resumed their polenta-heavy diet. Asia London Palomba, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2025 Heads are a recurrent theme— which feels apt, given Allen’s cerebral nature. Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025 The second half of the year begins this week for Billboard Japan’s charts, and recurrent rules have been implemented on the Japan Hot 100 and Hot Albums tallies. Billboard Japan, Billboard, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for recurrent
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Adjective
  • Does this bring him into a more recurring, regular role?
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 May 2025
  • Dobson says the research is coming now that the power engineering community increasingly recognizes cascading failures as a distinct and recurring problem—a concept that still elicited protests from power engineers in the aftermath of the 2003 blackout.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Aug. 2013
Adjective
  • Traditional extract, transform and load (ETL) systems—built for periodic batch jobs—fall short in these contexts.
    Shinoy Vengaramkode Bhaskaran, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • Beyond that, periodic chances of showers and storms will continue throughout the rest of the week.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 7 July 2025

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“Recurrent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recurrent. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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