Occurrence
A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.
Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed or expected; as, an unusual occurrence, or the ordinary occurrences of life.
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Occurrence Quotations
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
Cat Stevens
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
Archibald MacLeish
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
Samuel Richardson
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
Robert Smithson
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
Sergio Aragones
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
George Boole
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
Katherine Dunn
Occurrence Translations
occurrence in Latin is eventus
occurrence in Spanish is acaecimiento, suceso
occurrence in Swedish is uppkomst, tilldragelse
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