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Definition

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.

recurring = happening repeatedly

It is a genetic test that predicts the likelihood of breast-cancer recurrence.

recurrence = happening again

I've had recurrent symptoms.

recurrent = happening repeatedly

This is a recurring story

recurring = happens repeatedly

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

recurring = happening repeatedly

But I'm not so stupid as to cross an entire desert just because of a recurrent dream.
Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist

recurrent = occurring repeatedly

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

recurrent = happening repeatedly

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

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