How to Use recurrent in a Sentence

recurrent

adjective

• 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 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
• 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
• Undoneness is a recurrent theme of the spring 2023 season.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2022
• The film followed the lives of impoverished people in southern Italy— a recurrent theme in her work.
  — NBC News, 10 Dec. 2021
• 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
• The music, much of it composed of looping, recurrent elements, went on for hours.
  — Miguel Otárola, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• While a lot of nova events happen and then burn out, RS Ophiuchi is a recurrent nova system.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Mar. 2022
• But that was not enough for the practice to resume offering the drugs to patients with advanced or recurrent cancers.
  — Christina Jewett, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• The patient was in his late teens and had endured recurrent infections throughout his life.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2021
• Until about five years ago, the most powerful were based on what’s called a recurrent neural network.
  — Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• Nia Imani, who has lived on Orlando Street for more than 30 years, said gun violence and crime is a recurrent problem.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• The stupa is a recurrent visual theme in the Met exhibition.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• However, the recurrent fears of a repeat of the economic chaos of early 2020 are misplaced.
  — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2021
• This search for perfection is this recurrent theme throughout the series.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 2 June 2023
• Taurus April 20-May 20 A recurrent fight in a close relationship could end in a different way this time.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
• But, given recurrent and severe droughts, the state’s groundwater supply has been strained.
  — K.e.d. Coan, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2021
• Whether at racetracks or simply around town, car scenes feature recurrent, sharply edited closeups of hands on gearshifts and feet on clutches.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• Unfortunately, that has been a recurrent theme in moviegoing for me this year.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2022
• The notion of trust was recurrent throughout the panel discussion.
  — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 30 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024