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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of occur.

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Examples

  • The disclosure of her name occurs near the end of that delightful story, just before Lulamae, like Lillie Mae, abandons the apprentice writer.

    Strange, If Tru James Campbell 2011

  • A muzhik is a Russian peasant; the word occurs often in the stories of Isaac Babel, which Carver greatly admired.

    Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

  • The term occurs in Proclus, but in different contexts.

    Olympiodorus Wildberg, Christian 2007

  • An exhaustive concordance will tell you every single time a word occurs in the Bible.

    The Busy Mom’s Guide to Bible Study Lisa Whelchel 2007

  • (Oeuvres, XII, 516); a similar use of the term occurs frequently in the nineteenth century and then in con - nection with the Communist Revolution.

    REVOLUTION FELIX GILBERT 1968

  • In Wilhelm Scherer's standard Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (1883) the term occurs only in the

    CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Rhythmical "gymnastics," in the natural meaning of the word, is a part of the Dalcroze training, and a not unimportant part, but it is only one application of a much wider principle; and accordingly, where the term occurs in the following pages, it must be understood simply as denoting

    The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

  • The term occurs in a grant of an annuity of Oct. 19. 2

    Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 Various

  • The term occurs thirty-one times in the New Testament, but it does not appear once in the Gospels.

    Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Archibald B. C. Alexander

  • The term occurs forty-seven times in the New Testament, and it is translated thirty-eight times by the words _turn_ and _return_.

    The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880 Various

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