How to Use recurrent in a Sentence

recurrent

adjective
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  • The loss of innocence is a recurrent theme in his stories.
  • Without it, the world runs the risk of recurrent pandemics.
    — Lara Marks, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The recurrent all-nighters have stretched both parents thin.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2021
  • The staffing shortfall has been a recurrent point of contention.
    — Ted Mann, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
  • And even now, the song remains within the top 10 of recurrent airplay at the format.
    — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The process, which isn’t unique to colon cancer, holds the potential for a wide range of recurrent cancers.
    — NBC News, 17 Dec. 2021
  • This is the same problem that, transposed to the human realm, is the recurrent subject of Heti’s fiction.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Crash is like a highway with recurrent scenery, any stretch of which seems to be everywhere and nowhere at once.
    — Becca Rothfeld, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Safe drinking water was also a recurrent theme throughout the city strikes of the 1970s.
    — Fatima Garcia Elena, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2019
  • A year later, the theme of gender equity is a recurrent one, at least on the women’s side.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Immigration has served as a recurrent subject in his work, on the screen and off.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The standing nude model and the painting of a white cat, on the wall, introduce us to some of Hirshfield’s recurrent themes.
    — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2022
  • At the beginning of the twenty-first century, one of the recurrent visual symbols of the city, the Twin Towers, fell.
    — Nicholas D. Lowry, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Wrangling over finances has been a recurrent feature at the court.
    — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The team analyzed whether the emissions were one-offs or repeated and found that 68 per cent were recurrent.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
  • There are recurrent calls for tech support, caffeine and blankets, because the rooms can get cold, like the pizza.
    — Mark Leibovich, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2019
  • There are recurrent calls for tech support, caffeine, and blankets, because the rooms can get cold, like the pizza.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Fin de siècle artists saw the original objects and triggered the new école, a recurrent theme down the centuries.
    — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • The use of chemical weapons, a recurrent theme in the conflict that began nearly seven years ago, is a war crime.
    — Rick Gladstone, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Brazil's southeast has been hit by heavy rains this year, causing recurrent floods and landslides.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Undoneness is a recurrent theme of the spring 2023 season.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Centered, as usual, on Eddie’s recurrent melodic licks, the song takes flight when the rhythm section joins in.
    — chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • As with many of the team’s liquid creations, the bar itself is a recurrent source of inspiration.
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The film followed the lives of impoverished people in southern Italy— a recurrent theme in her work.
    — NBC News, 10 Dec. 2021
  • If this is a recurrent problem, pump a bit of milk before each nursing session.
    — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 22 July 2024
  • Life jackets and the avoidance of alcohol while swimming or boating are recurrent themes on the lists.
    — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2018
  • One recurrent pose finds everyone lying supine with a leg raised straight up.
    — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
  • While a recurrent network analyzes a sentence word by word, the transformer processes all the words at the same time.
    — Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Once contracted, the virus is lifelong, remaining latent or inactive in one’s nerve cells between recurrent outbreaks of ulcers.
    — Dr. Tal Patalon, Md, Llb, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Life in Austin has offered some of this, but a series of inopportune obstacles, including long-lasting stays by Antonio at urgent care has left the family in recurrent instability.
    — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Nov. 2024

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