Some articles on occur:
... some people believe that tornadoes only occur in North America, do not occur in winter, are attracted to mobile home parks, or that some areas are protected ...
... a result of this streamlining improper payments will no longer occur or be avoided completely ... will be available to support a payment that should occur and will not be available to payments that should not occur ...
... They occur only once ... The never occur for you in quite the same way that they occur for someone else, so that in the tiny differences between them you can reemploy a model or strategy ...
... Sometimes flypasts occur in special situations, to honour someone or to celebrate certain types of aircraft ... Often they occur in purely display contexts at airshows, but it is the flypasts linked with civic, ceremonial and national pride, that imprint themselves on a nation's ... notably Singapore, Canada and Australia, they occur on national days and occasionally on anniversaries ...
... It is said to occur particularly on the ring finger but can occur on any of the fingernails ... It can also occur in thyrotoxicosis and is thought to be due to sympathetic overactivity ...
More definitions of "occur":
- (verb): Come to one's mind; suggest itself.
Synonyms: come
- (verb): Come to pass.
Synonyms: happen, hap, go on, pass off, pass, fall out, come about, take place
Famous quotes containing the word occur:
“The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world’s greatest events are not produced, they happen.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn’t occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that’s all!”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)
“The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-child relationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)