How to Use reoccur in a Sentence

reoccur

verb
  • As some economies around the world re-open, virus breakouts may reoccur.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 13 May 2020
  • Flashbacks of finding her mom would reoccur and morph into scenes from her rape.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 May 2021
  • The signpost that reoccurs most often for me is the smell of lemon zest, almost fizzy in its direct attack on my nostrils.
    — Frances Leech, Longreads, 3 May 2018
  • Whether coronavirus will reoccur is anyone's guess, Hotez said.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Why does this type of content – in one format or another – continue to reoccur?
    — refinery29.com, 21 June 2021
  • There comes a point where the lack of a finite nature sees elements reoccur after a while, some much sooner than others.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Research at the time predicted these blobs would reoccur naturally every one to five years.
    — Tribune News Service, Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Deterrence Peace lasts when the parties trust that the violence won’t reoccur.
    — Valerie Morkevicius, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Hair regrowth is common, although hair loss can also reoccur or become permanent.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Woodpeckers feature in her work and reoccur in Chickasaw art.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Phrases and motifs reoccur, brief sketches connect related ideas, longer tracks are sometimes built from two shorter ones.
    — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
  • My suggestion – call an all-hands meeting and outline protocols to ensure that what happened this morning doesn’t reoccur.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2020
  • For starters, there’s too much money at stake — for corporate sponsors, media outlets, leagues and players — to allow such a failure to reoccur.
    — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • Fungal problems can reoccur when re-sodding due to extensive watering and frequent rains during the summer.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2017
  • The heat in Spain, Italy, Greece and some Balkan states is likely to reoccur every decade in the current climate, the study said.
    — Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • The heat in Spain, Italy, Greece, and some Balkan states is likely to reoccur every decade in the current climate, the study said.
    — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
  • The multinational firm has been under scrutiny ever since to ensure such incidents don't reoccur.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
  • Before the heat wave began, power company officials warned outages may reoccur as people ramp up their air conditioning.
    — Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
  • Most of these problems are likely one-off issues and unlikely to reoccur, but the time taken to follow that process though is there forever, and all organizations do is add more and more.
    — Jason Gould, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • Also, eating disorders tend to reoccur or persist over long periods among the same individuals.
    — Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • True, many people who believe pray for miracles to reoccur and believe that our Torah reinforces the idea that miracles are the essential conduits to faith.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 19 June 2017
  • How would Washington reassure the other party that the incident was unintentional and would not reoccur?
    — Lauren Kahn, Foreign Affairs, 6 June 2023
  • 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
  • Despite addressing some of these issues, TfL does not have confidence that similar issues will not reoccur in the future, which has led it to conclude that the company is not fit and proper at this time.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Kay, worried such an incident may reoccur, goes to visit elderly care facilities in Melbourne, a decision that Sam finds outrageous.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 10 July 2020
  • In a study recently published in Science Advances, Machlis and his coauthors developed a framework for responding to disasters that reoccur in the same place within a short time.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
  • For many people, parosmia tends to occur or reoccur at the three-month mark, about the time olfactory neurons would naturally be regenerating, experts told CNN.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Yellow's mood improving qualities could be assumed to help seasonal affective disorder -- a specific type of depression that reoccurs each year during fall and winter, and is believed to be influenced by lack of sunlight.
    — Sebastián Baptista, CNN, 30 June 2017
  • One thing that seems to reoccur in these clustering algorithms is that South Asians with elevated East Asian ancestry are often thrown together into one pot, despite very diverse origins.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2012
  • Boston's rotation fell apart in the second half of this season and Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow is busy this winter making sure that won't reoccur in 2025.
    — Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024

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