Word Finder - occurred

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To happen or take place.

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The liftoff will occur in exactly twelve seconds.

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To present or offer itself.

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I will write if the opportunity occurs.

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To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.

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To be present or found.

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The chemical monofluoroacetate occurs in all parts of Dichapetalum cymosum, and is responsible for its toxic effects.

An idea occurred to her.

It occurred to her that he might push her off it.

Why hadn't it occurred to her that Jonathan might feel he was being replaced?

He made an excellent companion, a fact that hadn't occurred to her before that moment.

Something else occurred to her and her stomach contracted.

I cautioned everyone not to be concerned with what occurred after we conveyed a tip.

Curiously enough, it never occurred to me to call Greek patronymics "queer."

The thought that they had no water on the planet itself had never occurred to her.

Glancing down at her sandaled feet, it occurred to her that she was hardly dressed for a walk in the woods.

Howie had difficulty locating the apartment and nothing untoward occurred before he was awoken by the sound of a horn, seventeen minutes later.

I was beginning to overcome these difficulties when an event occurred which changed everything.

Before Evelyn could answer, another thought occurred to Kiera.

But just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of the onlookers, Will it be long?

And don't tell me nothing else occurred to you.

My only hint occurred during a dance with Martha at our wedding reception.

Later as she lay awake beside him, listening to the sound of his breathing, it occurred to her that they had fallen into the pattern of making up by making love.

The attacks on the coast occurred simultaneously with nukes that would've been impossible to hide, let alone smuggle into the country.

Even as the idea occurred that she would rather have this room, she knew she couldn't ask.

Looking up into his face, it occurred to her that he was considerably shorter than Josh, and yet he didn't seem short.

An elderly dame, too, dwells in my neighborhood, invisible to most persons, in whose odorous herb garden I love to stroll sometimes, gathering simples and listening to her fables; for she has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what fact every one is founded, for the incidents occurred when she was young.

Unfortunately, it occurred over night and we couldn't fix the time in spite of three attempts to do so.

His death occurred at Windsor on the 4th of July 1713.

Returning to New Haven in 1869, he was appointed professor of mathematical physics in Yale College in 1871, and held that position till his death, which occurred at New Haven on the 28th of April 1903.

Hence, when the rupture occurred, the fleet was already at its stations in the North Sea, and Adml.

A remarkable fossil from the Scottish Coal-measures (Lithomantis) had apparently small wing-like structures on the prothorax, and in allied genera small veined outgrowths - like tracheal gills - occurred on the abdominal segments.

From all points of view it appears, therefore, probable that Endopterygota are descended from Exopterygota, and we are brought to the question as to the way in which this has occurred.

But these and many other contributions, 4 made until nearly the close of the 18th century, though highly meritorious, were unconnected as a whole, and it is plain that no conception of what it was in the power, of Comparative Anatomy to set forth had occurred to the most diligent dissectors.

A curious phenomenon then occurred.

No woman makes any but the briefest appearance in his pages, though in reference to this it must of course be remembered that he was certainly a man past middle life when the events occurred, and perhaps a man approaching old age when he set them down.

The famous description of the crusades, gesta Dei per Francos, was evidently to Villehardouin a plain matter-of-fact description, and it no more occurred to him to doubt the divine favour being extended to the expeditions against Alexius or Theodore than to doubt that it was shown to expeditions against Saracens and Turks.

The most disastrous occurred in 1875, 1856 and in 1770, when the flood level at Castets attained the record height of 422 ft.

Syracuse has been the meeting-place of some historically important political conventions; that of 1847, in which occurred the split between the " Barnburner " and " Hunker " factions of the Democratic party, began the Free Soil movement in the state.

Each was jealous of the other and deadlocks frequently occurred.

The Hague Conference of 1907, owing to difficulties which occurred in the course of the preliminary negotiations for the conference, did not deal with the subject.

Their glowing hues, are, however, speedily lost by examples which may be kept in confinement, and are replaced by a dull orange, or in some cases by a bright golden-yellow, and specimens have, though rarely, occurred in a wild state exhibiting the same tints.

It has twice occurred in England.

These changes occurred in a single lifetime, which meant people changed their minds.

After awhile the need of some means of communication became so urgent that these outbursts occurred daily, sometimes hourly.

Then it occurred to me that with the help of this new word I might succeed in straightening out the "mug-milk" difficulty.

Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and activity, Tushin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never occurred to him.

Having ridden up to Nicholas, Ilagin raised his beaver cap and said he much regretted what had occurred and would have the man punished who had allowed himself to seize a fox hunted by someone else's borzois.

One instance, which had occurred some twenty years before, was a movement among the peasants to emigrate to some unknown "warm rivers."

But later on, to fit what had occurred, the historians provided cunningly devised evidence of the foresight and genius of the generals who, of all the blind tools of history were the most enslaved and involuntary.

When a pause occurred during his short visit, Nicholas, as is usual when there are children, turned to Prince Andrew's little son, caressing him and asking whether he would like to be an hussar.

This occurred especially in the last half of the 19th century, largely owing to the abolition of the so-called beni ademprivili.

In 1887 a severe banking crisis occurred in Sardinia.

This was done without delay, and the pension was continued to his wife and family after his death, which occurred on the 3rd of May 1845.

In the early part of 1902 he slipped from a tramcar in Berlin and fractured his thigh; from this injury he never really recovered, and his death occurred in Berlin on the 5th of September 5902.

A memorable incident occurred at one of these meetings.

These dates are valuable as enabling us to fix approximately the date of his birth, which must have occurred somewhere about 1370.