One of the major signs that a relationship is viable is that both parties are willing to give up an unusual, even inordinate amount of time to the intellectual exploration of its past flaws. The more they can stand to examine the horror, the less it need to recur.

So this topic, intentional as that was, will actually recur.

So very much so, your startup and your career is an expression of you and your co-founders in a way that expresses what are the themes that are going to recur throughout your careers.

In most fields of study, there are concepts or patterns of concepts and relationships that tend to repeat and recur throughout that field.

I was not free to resume the interrupted chain of my reflections till bedtime: even then a teacher who occupied the same room with me kept me from the subject to which I longed to recur, by a prolonged effusion of small talk: how I wished sleep would silence her: it seemed as if, could I but go back to the idea which had last entered my mind as I stood by the window, some inventive suggestion would rise to my relief.

Phenology is the study of natural phenomena that recur periodically,

If the headaches recur and you've had them for years, the time to come to a doctor when they begin to interfere with your life.

It's about to recur.

These are signs in your dreams that recur frequently that could clue you into the fact that you're dreaming.

And there's always the other dream was they always say, "You know, this could recur.