Thesaurus results for CO-OCCURRENCES

co-occurrences

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As dark occurrences begin to shatter the quiet of their isolated home, the boy is forced to navigate a harrowing psychological nightmare where the line between real-world madness and supernatural terror blurs.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026
The occurrences have involved United, American and Southwest aircraft that were landing, taking off or preparing for departure.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of occurrences

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Percolation captures a vast array of phenomena, but the prototypical examples involve fluids, like hot water seeping through a bed of coffee grounds.

— Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2026
Sometimes, those experiments escape the festival entirely and go on to become global cultural phenomena.

— Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of phenomena

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Last year, an explosive device there killed eight soldiers in one of the deadliest such incidents in Mexico.

— María Verza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Another is investigating dozens of incidents in which Teslas using partial self-driving software ran red lights or drove on the wrong side of the road, sometimes crashing into other vehicles and causing injuries.

— Bernard Condon, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026

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Their odds of winning the World Series – a famously finicky task prone to small sample size flukes – were over 25%, one-in-four for one of baseball’s 30 teams.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Guests at Brookfield Zoo can identify her in Dolphin Bay by her distinctive features, including a freckle on her tongue, pink coloration on her ventral side, and smaller flukes and dorsal fins in relation to her body size.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of flukes

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When a company that builds fire trucks, rail-maintenance machinery, or electric vehicle chargers is invited to bid on a big contract, the request that lands in its inbox can run to thousands of pages of technical specifications.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
Their respective status pages also showed issues during the day.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026

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