Synonyms for occur
əˈkɜroc·cur

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1. occur

   A thing is said to happen when no design is manifest, or none especially thought of; it is said to chance when it appears to be the result of accident (compare synonyms for ACCIDENT). An incident happens or occurs; something external or actual happens to one; a thought or fancy occurs to him. Befall and betide are transitive; happen is intransitive; something befalls or betides a person or happens to him. Betide is especially used for anticipated evil, thought of as waiting and coming at its appointed time; as, wo betide him! One event supervenes upon another event, one disease upon another, etc. ["Transpire," in the sense of happen, is not authorized by good usage: a thing that has happened is properly said to transpire when it becomes known.]

   Synonyms:
   bechance, befall, betide, chance, come to pass, fall, fall out, happen, supervene, take place

   Preposition:
   An event happens to a person; a person happens on or upon a fact, discovery, etc.

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1. occur

   Synonyms:
   befall, happen, betide, supervene, take place, appear, arise

   Antonyms:
   pass, threaten, impend

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1. happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take placeverb

   come to pass

   "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

   Synonyms:
   materialise, run, perish, elapse, go past, make pass, progress, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, continue, pass off, slip by, materialize, breathe, excrete, turn over, go, spend, bechance, slide by, croak, emit, fade, hand, legislate, happen, egest, exit, authorise, exceed, fleet, pass away, slip away, drop dead, overstep, transcend, make it, return, pop off, come out, authorize, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, give, fall out, hap, march on, glide by, go on, chance, sink, eliminate, move on, lapse, come up, give-up the ghost, blow over, take place, lead, expire, overhaul, find, advance, go through, reach, communicate, come about, keep, choke, pass by, snuff it, overtake, bump, follow, extend, come on, carry on, die, fall, pass, proceed, encounter, clear, decease, conk, travel by, buy the farm, pass along, come, befall, go across, go along, surpass, guide, pass on

2. occur, comeverb

   come to one's mind; suggest itself

   "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her"

   Synonyms:
   pass off, happen, derive, fall out, issue forth, amount, go on, total, make out, arrive, number, follow, come up, hail, take place, fare, get, descend, come, fall, get along, pass, do, come about, come in, hap, add up

3. occurverb

   to be found to exist

   "sexism occurs in many workplaces"; "precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil"

   Synonyms:
   hap, go on, pass off, take place, happen, fall out, pass, come, come about

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1. • Appear
   • Become

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1. occurverb

   Synonyms:
   appear, arise, offer, come into view, present itself, be met with, meet the eye

2. occurverb

   Synonyms:
   come to one's mind, come into one's head, flash on the mind

3. occurverb

   Synonyms:
   befall, happen, fall out, take place, come about, come to pass

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1. List of paraphrases for "occur":

   happen, arise, occurs, appear, produce, emerge, place

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1. Eduardo Rodriguez:

   There have been over a hundred hand transplants performed successfully, and close to 50 face transplants, so fundamentally there was no reason why they couldn't occur together, successfully.

2. Rachel Campos-Duffy:

   His chapter was really touching because Sean and I both have parents who had tragedies occur in their lives around the holidays, so it's a good reminder that, you know, the holidays are joyous for some people and a mixed bag for some people, all American Christmas.

3. Sardar Biglari:

   In absolutely no way did the described situation occur, alessandra was a dream to work with and enjoyed the photo shoot. She was incredibly pleased with both her cover and the spread.

4. Catherine Troisi:

   We know what makes transmission of the virus occur more frequently, and that includes close contact, particularly without masking, crowds, [ being ] indoors versus outdoors, the duration of the contact, and then shouting also increases the possibility of transmission, there are going to be tens of thousands of people in attendance. So, it is a great place to spread virus. And from what I understand, these are not just people who live in Tulsa County. There are people coming in from far away to go to the rally, so they'll be returning to their home cities, and so that we may see spread outside of the Tulsa County area.

5. Peter Strzok:

   The suggestion that I, in some dark chamber somewhere in the FBI would somehow cast aside all of these procedures, all of these safeguards, and somehow be able to do this, is astounding to me, it simply couldn't happen. And the proposition that that is going on, that it might occur anywhere in the FBI, deeply corrodes what the FBI is in American society, the effectiveness of their mission, and it is deeply destructive.