occurred
inflected form of “occur” — come to pass
An inflected form of occur · inflected form.
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,378 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,348 times across 173,643 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- come to pass also: happen, hap, go on, pass off, pass, fall out What is happening?The meeting took place off without an incidence
- come to one's mind; suggest itself also: come It occurred to me that we should hire another secretaryA great idea then came to her
- to be found to exist sexism occurs in many workplacesprecious stones occur in a large area in Brazil
occurred in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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It was three months before such an opportunity occurred.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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Paredes's features, it occurred to him, were exactly like a mask.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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Several instances of this spirit have occurred in the year past.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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I saw at once by his face that something disturbing had occurred.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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It never occurred to her as a possibility that she who was still fairly young could die suddenly and without warning.
The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls · L. T. Meade · Chapter 1