Meaning & use
occurrence
Something that happens or takes place; an event, or the fact of something happening.
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Power outages are a common occurrence during the heaviest storms of the winter.
The strange occurrence in the lab was never fully explained by the scientists.
A note on using this word
Occurrence is often paired with frequency words like 'common', 'rare', or 'frequent occurrence'; note the double r and double c in spelling, a frequent error.
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