adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a recurrent/recurring dream (= that you have many times )
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Having recurrent dreams is a very common experience.
a recurrent/recurring theme (= one that appears several times )
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Returning to traditional values was a major theme of the president’s speech.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
expenditure
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These contradictions explain the recurrent expenditure crises.
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On May 10 Mullings presented a budget for 1990-91 with recurrent expenditure estimated at J$7,049 million and capital expenditure of J$3,522,800,000.
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The budget of EC$184,000,000 projected capital expenditure at EC$85,100,000 and recurrent expenditure at EC$98,800,000, while revenue was estimated at EC$103,00,000.
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Total spending was set at R11,600 million, of which R9,000 million was allocated to recurrent expenditure .
problem
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The exercise of that authority had proved a recurrent problem for late-medieval kings.
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It was, as we shall see, a recurrent problem among social democrats.
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Pippin I's recurrent problem had been the meddling of his father, ex-king of Aquitaine.
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A recurrent problem for the station was that of poor reception, even when the transmitting power was increased.
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Unemployment was a recurrent problem throughout this period.
stone
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In the remainder, the recurrent stones were silent or asymptomatic.
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It is too early to establish whether recurrent stone formation after percutaneous cholecystolithotomy differs from other non-operative treatments.
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Our emphasis on biliary cholesterol saturation in the pathogenesis of recurrent stones , therefore, may have been incorrect.
theme
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Leaning rather than pulling is a recurrent theme in windsurfing which, once mastered, leads to rapid progress.
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But suicide is a recurrent theme in support group discussions.
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A repeated stress upon the benefits brought by diversity is a recurrent theme of the Council documents.
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We examine these recurrent themes in the managers' first-year biographies in the following pages.
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A quite different sort of example is the recurrent theme of asking for a sign in the gospel narratives.
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Yet, despite the stylistic variety, there is a noticeable abundance of recurrent themes and messages.
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The waking and stirring of life is a recurrent theme in this poem.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a recurrent infection
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both local and national industrial action by prison officers has been a recurrent event.
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Feedback networks that have closed loops are recurrent systems.
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Its effect was particularly damaging in relation to the recurrent tragedies of death in childhood, which are examined in the next chapter.
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Leaning rather than pulling is a recurrent theme in windsurfing which, once mastered, leads to rapid progress.
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Often there is a family history of recurrent ulcers in the parents as well.
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Others are killed by recurrent cold waves, by boat propellers, and infrequently by crocodiles and sharks.
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She had a history of recurrent eczema but no exposure to toxic products.