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How to pronounce occurs 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 occurs

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The advantage of osmotic energy is that it uses a process that occurs in nature.
From the forbes.com
The most successful slashing occurs when activities serve more than one purpose.
From the businessweek.com
Whether surgery occurs before or after chemo does not affect long-term outcomes.
From the online.wsj.com
This type of global warming occurs in roughly half of all winters in the Arctic.
From the sciencedaily.com
Without wealth's allure, no production occurs and thus no progress materializes.
From the forbes.com
Now let's imagine that an event occurs that requires the strategy to be changed.
From the forbes.com
In short, when p53 and the process it controls are damaged, cancer often occurs.
From the sciencedaily.com
Vitiligo is relatively rare and occurs in less than 1 percent of the population.
From the dailyherald.com
Red tide is a type of harmful algae that naturally occurs in the Gulf of Mexico.
From the heraldtribune.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.