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Occur

verb

(past & past part. occurred; pres. part. occurring)

Come to pass. Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, pass, pass off, take place. "The meeting took place off without an incidence" , "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

Come to one's mind; suggest itself. Synonym: come. "A great idea then came to her"

To be found to exist. "Precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil"

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... had discarded the simplicity of campaigning days, and attired herself with a magnificence which was emulated by her "Court." It was yet too soon to break from tradition, and the Washingtons conducted themselves in accordance with their strong aristocratic proclivities. Nor did it occur to anyone, even the most ardent Republican, that dignity and splendour were inconsistent with a free and enlightened Republic, until Jefferson began his steady and successful system of ...

— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton

... was either F. Ybanez or the Inquisitor Soto, if the expression did not occur in the first Life. F. Dom. Banes struck out "son," and wrote "father" in its place, omitting the words, "so humble ...

— The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila

... stability. The living, the absolutely unstable, the absolutely individual, is, strictly, unintelligible. Logic tends to reduce everything to identities and genera, to each representation having no more than one single and self-same content in whatever place, time, or relation it may occur to us. And there is nothing that remains the same for two successive moments of its existence. My idea of God is different each time that I conceive it. Identity, which is death, is the goal of the ...

— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno

... us if the action for which we prepare the subject is from the start related to a definite time. If we do not link it with the consciousness of a special time or of a special occasion which will occur later, the suggestion soon fades away. That my library is an orchard is forgotten perhaps within ten minutes, if I have not come back to it in the conversation. But if I say that after awaking as soon as I shall knock on my desk three times, you will be ...

— Psychotherapy • Hugo Muensterberg

... case any should occur, we have the piece of paper which that poor misguided young ...

— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens

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