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recur

re·cur

UK/ɹɪˈkɛː/ US/ɹɪˈkɜː/ fairly common

verb

1.

happen or occur again

  • “This is a recurring story”
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2.
3.

have recourse to

  • “The government resorted to rationing meat”
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Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin recurrō (“to hurry or run back; to return, revert”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + currō (“to hasten, hurry; to move, travel; to run”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”)). cognates * Anglo-Norman recurre, recorre (“to have recourse to”) * Catalan recórrer * Italian ricorrer * Old French recourir (Middle French recourir; modern French recourir (“to have recourse to; to run again; to run back”)) * Old Occitan recorre * Portuguese recorrer * Spanish recorrer

Phrases

  • curiously recurring template pattern

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