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occur English

Meaning occur meaning

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occur Verb

— If something occurs, it happens. Over the summer a change occurred in my friend’s behaviour. — If something occurs to you, you suddenly think of it. It occurred to me that I was in trouble.

occur

— verb (= happen, pass, take place) come to pass What is happening? The meeting took place off without an incidence Nothing occurred that seemed important — verb (= come) come to one's mind; suggest itself It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary A great idea then came to her — verb to be found to exist sexism occurs in many workplaces precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil

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occur English » English

happen take place come about appear arise befall come pass go on come up come to pass transpire rise emerge turn up hap be strike start pass off fall out fall develop come to mind caused betide supervene produced produce originate offer get ensue come into existence come across break out break begin become bechance arrive want uprise unfold undergo turn transcend time think of take

Topics occur topics

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Grammar General words Be

Exist
Grammar General words Do

Happen
Language and thought

Think
Language and thought Think Learn

Realize

Conjugation occur conjugation

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occur · verb

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Simple sentences

It may occur at any moment.
Accidents of this kind often occur.
These structures would rarely, if ever, occur in spoken English.
This kind of thing doesn't occur very often.
Traffic accidents are likely to occur on rainy days.
Didn't it occur to you to shut the windows?
Earthquakes may occur at any moment.
Earthquakes can occur at any hour.
Did it not occur to you to close the windows?
An emergency may occur at any time.
Bright ideas never occur to me.
When did this occur?
How did that occur?
When did it occur?
When did the error occur?
Does the error occur regularly or sporadically? Is the error reproducible?

Movie subtitles

Did it ever occur to you that Chris might work?
And did it occur to you that Bryant's death would cause an investigation?
Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
When did it occur?
Did it ever occur to you that I might've changed?
No one could take your place if anything unfortunate should occur to you while you're trying to escape.
It won't occur again, sir.
It didn't occur to me.
A similar mishap will not occur this time.
I got all the snakes. When is this snake act suppose to occur?
You understand exactly what is going to occur?
I don't know. It didn't occur to me to ask.
Alono Smith, did it occur to you you might take your sister to the dance?
Did it ever occur to you that some women like affection even better than conversation?
It would seem that we occur in a ratio of about one in 10 million.
Even if something should occur, Joe, I'll be all right if you're here.
Did it ever occur to you I might go out and find myself an attractive young man?
No, but the idea of wearing white gloves wouldn't occur to me.
Did it ever occur to you that maybe Burke didn't wanna be champion?
Much of the time, he's not even friendly. It would never occur to you to buy me a present, would it?
I'm sure that the way to say what I'd like to say will occur to me after you've gone.
It didn't occur to me to ask.
Nick, did it occur to you somebody might've been trying to shoot you and hit the boy instead?
Why did it never occur to you that I might be a woman?
Holmes, did it occur to you that the steward behaved rather suspiciously?
But the author is looking out for him who has been abandoned by everyone, and so he bestows upon him an epilogue, telling a story that. - unfortunately. - usually doesn't occur in real life.
Destruction of humans through irradiation and weapons will occur in 17 hours and 27 minutes.
Did it ever occur to you that she might love me?
Doesn't it ever occur to him that you might be wanting to go out for a good time or something?
Did it ever occur to you to mind your own business?
It is to our everlasting disgrace. That in these modern times, such barbaric demonstrations should occur.
Should a disaster occur during the night.
No one could take your place if anything unfortunate should occur to you while you were trying to escape.
Didn't it occur to you that someone else might need me?
Of course, it would never occur to you that little pitchers have big ears.
The time didn't occur to me.
When did that occur to you?

News and current affairs

Real reductions in carbon emissions will occur only when better technology makes it worthwhile for individuals and businesses to change their behavior.
Should the disastrous events contemplated here occur, a new global economy will eventually emerge from the ashes.
Inter-state combat may still occur where strategic front lines can be found, such as Israel's border with Syria, India's border with Pakistan, and the border dividing the two Koreas.
This will occur precisely at a time when Latin America is swerving left, with country after country drifting back to anti-American, populist stances: Venezuela in 1999, Bolivia last year, perhaps Mexico, Peru, and Nicaragua later this year.
They occur when a bank's clients fear that most of their fellow depositors will withdraw their funds.
A rat's amygdala responds to natural dangers (rats fear cats without having to learn to do so) and learns about new dangers (sounds, sights and smells that occur in anticipation of cats and other threats).
Intelligence services can educate the public, explaining the origins of the alienation that underpins terrorism, how radicalization and recruitment occur, and highlight terrorists' goals, methods, and targeting strategies.
Exactly the same transition is likely to occur in Palestine, but it has not happened yet.
If inflationary expectations were changed, then disinflation could occur without the costly unemployment.
But if exports continue to grow in the absence of consumption-led import growth, distortions occur and the trade surplus and foreign reserves increase.
Like the first round of talks, this consultation would occur between a group of economies that have special relevance to the issue.
Unfortunately, proving that speculation is responsible for rising prices is difficult, because speculation tends to occur during booms, so that price increases easily masquerade as a reflection of economic fundamentals.
Such gene flow does not occur when farmers buy their seeds from seed producers, of course, but in that case gene flow in the other direction is still possible, with genes from the cultivated crop ending up in the wild relative.
Finally, crises are highly non-linear events, which means that they occur without much warning.
Too little government attention has been focused on such issues, partly because payoffs occur beyond electoral horizons, and partly because the effectiveness of government programs has been mixed.
I cannot believe that they will let such an injustice occur.
If real estate prices were to fall dramatically, a chain reaction could occur, taking down big and small investors alike, and over time causing wide suffering to ordinary Africans.
Unfortunately, these headline-grabbing numbers are not likely to be borne out in reality; indeed, even the CBO does not believe that they represent what will occur.
None of this can occur in a vacuum.
While many analysts in a wide variety of nations, especially in Europe, have concluded that such an event could not occur there in the foreseeable future, India is an exception.
But we must guard against the re-emergence of significant imbalances, which means, in part, assuring the exchange-rate flexibility that must play a critical role in allowing needed economic adjustments to occur.
Change will not occur from one day to the next, but the results obtained in the end will be better and more enduring.
Until such changes occur, many challenges will fall through the cracks that exist between a strained Pax Americana and a rebalancing world.
Thus, orderly market-based restructurings via exchange offers need to occur in 2011.
Of course, this should occur in a context of cooperation across regions as well as within them.

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