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to happen repeatedly or a second time- The infection is less likely to recur if you finish all the recommended antibiotics.
recur = happen again
- It is a recurring nightmare.
- It is a genetic test that predicts the likelihood of breast-cancer recurrence.
- I've had recurrent symptoms.
- This is a recurring story
- I would dream this dream and wake up in a cold sweat or screaming. ... Soda began sleeping with me, and it stopped recurring so often, but it happened often enough for Darry to take me to a doctor.S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders
- But I'm not so stupid as to cross an entire desert just because of a recurrent dream.Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist
- There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper
- The possibility of a recurrence, genetically speaking, is 99 per cent. It's time we planned now for what may be....Stephen King -- Carrie
- "How strangely you talk," said I, "of such a constantly recurring and consequently commonplace matter as the sequence of the seasons."William Morris -- News from Nowhere
- The pieces that occur and recur.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- "I'm always afraid of recurrence," said Lee.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- His active pings were reflected back by the cloud of bubbles, and his passive listening ability was greatly reduced by the recurring rumbles.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
- The recurring image is one I'd seen in a documentary of the Holocaust.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- The incident was a recurring dream, concocted years before by stupid whites and it eternally came back to haunt us all.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- It's a phrase that recurs in my dreams, my visions, Wilhelmina's book.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- It is a recurring craving.Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- That was just before the little weather girl got her big break, a recurring bit part in a comedy.J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
- Now the taint had surfaced to threaten everything, and, looking on me for that one terrible moment, she must have seen me as disaster recurring.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- There were long notices in praise of the quality of the burlesque, touched with recurrent references to Carrie.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
recurring = happening repeatedly
recurrence = happening again
recurrent = happening repeatedly
recurring = happens repeatedly
recurring = happening repeatedly
recurrent = occurring repeatedly
recurrent = happening repeatedly
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