co-occurrence

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Recent Examples of co-occurrence Overlapping risk factors and immune system vulnerability likely explain the co-occurrence of these two cancers. Health Editorial Team, Health, 3 Dec. 2025
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Noun
  • Focus on risks with the highest probability of occurrence and the greatest impact on the point.
    Larry Bomback, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Once a popular tradition on all successful shows, contract renegotiations after Season 2 are a very rare occurrence these days, reserved only for the biggest hits amid industry belt-tightening.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • This year's festival just happens to land exactly on the Fourth of July, a coincidence Patti Mangan, the executive director of the Fillmore Merchants Association, believed was a blessing.
    Noe Padilla, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Speaking of dogs, Rikke has one, and Park shares that the casting of this dog was a lucky coincidence.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • This didn’t happen to me by a fluke accident.
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2026
  • These moments are not flukes either.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Obviously, there are rooftoppers that hail from all over the planet, so perhaps young generations with nothing left to lose are a universal phenomenon nowadays.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 July 2026
  • Either dark energy is a real phenomenon, causing the universe to grow bigger at a faster and faster rate, or there is no dark energy at all, and scientists have somehow misunderstood the laws of gravity at cosmic scales.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • The incident, which authorities are investigating, occurred 30 nautical miles (around 55 kilometers) southwest of Yemen’s Red Sea port of Al Hudaydah, UKMTO said.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • The incident occurred following Angel City FC's 2-0 win over the Orlando Pride on Friday evening, July 3, according to an Angel City FC spokesperson and multiple videos of the incident shared on social media by event attendees.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026

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“Co-occurrence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/co-occurrence. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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