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How to pronounce occur in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, pass, pass off, take place
Has types anticipate, arise, backfire, backlash, bechance, turn out, repeat, result, roll around, shine, strike, supervene, synchronise, synchronize, transpire, befall, betide, break, chance, coincide, come, come around, come off, come up, concur, contemporise, contemporize, develop, fall, give, go, go off, go over, happen, intervene, materialise, materialize, proceed, recoil, recrudesce, recur


Nothing occurred that seemed important.
Type Words
Synonyms come
Type of become


It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary.
Type Words
Type of come along, appear
Has types pullulate with, run, abound in, pair, geminate, collocate, teem in


sexism occurs in many workplaces.
precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil.

Examples of occur

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Citing statistics, they stress how rarely fatal firearm-related accidents occur.
From the dailyherald.com
Medical literature shows these burns can occur within 10 minutes at 120 degrees.
From the usatoday.com
If your family has a presence on Facebook or Twitter, check-ins can occur there.
From the usatoday.com
The two disorders are definitely different, but they may occur at the same time.
From the abcnews.go.com
Cancers occur when the mechanisms that control normal cell division are mutated.
From the sciencedaily.com
Some metals were found at a higher level than would naturally occur in the area.
From the timesunion.com
Tomatoes are very acidic and milk or cream is added to them, curdling can occur.
From the kansas.com
The newspaper said epidemic levels are when more than 378 cases occur in a week.
From the upi.com
The pain may occur within days, months or years after starting a bisphosphonate.
From the upi.com
More examples
  • Happen: come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
  • Come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her"
  • To be found to exist; "sexism occurs in many workplaces"; "precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil"
  • To happen or take place; To present or offer itself; To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself; To be present or found
  • (occurring) The action of the verb to occur; That occurs in a specified manner
  • (Occurs) Type in a number giving the COBOL occurs clause. If the column defines a group, gives the number of elements in the group.
  • As in "This Friend's name would not have occurred to me." a Friendly (i.e. devious) way of damning a suggestion.