Meaning & use
recurrence
The fact or instance of something happening again after it has already occurred once.
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Doctors monitored her closely to catch any recurrence of the illness early.
The city built new drains to prevent a recurrence of last year's flooding.
A note on using this word
Recurrence is commonly used in medicine to describe a disease returning after a period of remission.
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