recurrent
pronunciation
How to pronounce recurrent in British English:
UK [rɪˈkʌrənt]
How to pronounce recurrent in American English:
US [rɪˈkɜrənt]
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- Adjective:
- recurring again and again
Word Origin
- recurrent (adj.)
- 1610s, from Middle French recurrent (16c.) and directly from Latin recurrentem (nominative recurrens), present participle of recurrere "run back, hasten back, return" (see recur). From 1590s as a noun ("recurrent muscle").
Example
- 1. Marx got it upside down : capitalism 's recurrent crises actually make it stronger .
- 2. The classic form of the illness , which involves recurrent episodes of mania and depression , is called bipolar I disorder .
- 3. However , the evolutionary process has been subject to recurrent exogenous disruptions in the form of geopolitical shocks , financial crises and regulatory interventions ( or lapses ) .
- 4. This view can be sustained only if you ignore the recurrent conflicts between india and pakistan over kashmir , and the civil war in sri lanka , as well as asia 's closest parallel to the former yugoslavia , which is indonesia .
- 5. Some researchers hypothesize that these monthly hormonal changes act as a type of recurrent stressor , and with these repetitive insults , the underlying architecture of a woman 's brain is somehow altered so that is more susceptible to depression .