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 sense of balance keeps their social life from becoming a recurring source of tension. Mark Travers, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025 But to wag the finger of blame solely at the fact Le Tissier, one of the WSL’s most-in-form centre backs, was deployed at right-back or at the defensive changes is to overlook the recurring issues. Megan Feringa, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025 Both sides cautiously pursue normalization after years of recurring clashes. Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025 Our rapid trajectory from $1 million to $100 million in annual recurring revenue in just a few years is proof that businesses are seeing the value, and slowly starting to shift from viewing GRC teams as a cost center to a business enabler. Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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