recurring

Use recurring in a sentence

When Alexa is stressed out, she experiences a recurring dream in which she is falling.

When Alexa is stressed out, she experiences a recurring dream in which she is falling.

adjective

The definition of recurring is happening time and again, or returning.

If you are charged the same payment for a gym membership every month, this is an example of a recurring payment.
If you have the same nightmare about falling down for nights on end, this is an example of a recurring nightmare.

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recurring

Verb

Present participle of recur.

Adjective

Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.
He has recurring asthma attacks.
Revenge is a recurring theme in this novel.
(mathematics) Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely.
Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.

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Such frequently recurring movements introduced new blood.
The Incas had an elaborate system of state-worship, with a ritual, and frequently recurring festivals.
The explanation of these recurring phenomena is that a great cloud or distended stream of meteors revolves around the sun in a period of 331years, and that one portion of the elliptical orbit intersects that of the earth.
They are not conceived of in any anthropomorphic form, their sex even may often be indeterminate ("sive mas, sive femina" is the constantly recurring formula of prayer), but the sphere of action of each is clearly marked and an appeal to a spirit outside his own special sphere would never even be thought of.
And the world of the spirit and the world of nature continue to have this distinction, that the latter moves only in a recurring cycle while the former certainly also makes progress."

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