phenomenon(EXISTING THING)
Death was an everyday occurrence during the Civil War.在内战期间，死亡是家常便饭。
It's still not possible to accurately predict the occurrence of earthquakes.现在仍无法准确预报地震的发生。
There have been several occurrences of theft in the area recently.
The argument was an unfortunate occurrence in an otherwise pleasant day.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Events and occurrences
-athon
backstory
be (all) part of life's rich tapestry/pageantidiom
benefit
binge
car wash
curve
date night
edition
epiphenomenon
episode
goings-on
occasion
proceedings
reoccurrence
saga
shoe
spree
synchronicity
thing

occurrencenoun (EXISTING)

C1[ U ]
the fact of something existing, or how much of it exists: 存在；存在的数量
The study compares the occurrence of heart disease in various countries.该项研究比较了不同国家心脏病的发病率。

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General words for size and amount
-sized
amount
bulk
content
dose of sth
element
extent
footprint
load
measure
much
number
order
percent
ration
size
small-scale
so muchidiom
strength
sublot

occurrence | American Dictionary

occurrence
noun[ C/U ]
us/əˈkɜr·əns/

occurrencenoun[C/U] (HAPPENING)

an event, esp. one that happens unexpectedly:
[ C ]Break-ins are an everyday occurrence in this neighborhood.

occurrencenoun[C/U] (EXISTENCE)

the existence or presence of something:
The tests can detect the occurrence of certain cancers.

Examples of occurrence

occurrence
Adaptive language modelling literature gives examples of how the problem of estimating of probabilities of repeat occurrences can be alleviated.
As illustrated by the example of the parting of the seas, fairly impressive occurrences can be engineered through this mechanism.
An object may belong to several class labels, each associated with it by the number of occurrences in the training data set.
While no instances have been detected for the 20th century, the latest occurrences in the 19th century are preserved in unproductive or nonstandard collocations.
However, observe that several occurrences of the same subformula receive distinct locations.
Playful observations of everyday life and discontinuities in logic allow gamblers to translate dreams and other visions and occurrences into ' hunches'.
Suppose now that in the sequent we have that and denote sets of occurrences of formulas.
The distributive distributes the event across several participants or several locations, or several occurrences.
In particular, several occurrences of the same formulas are still distinguished, but the information on their order is lost.
Of all occurrences of the 31 words, 88% used the most common disambiguation.
Since this context also occurs in the type schemes for the variables, the correct dictionaries will always be passed at occurrences of the variables.
Entailment checking is quadratic in the number of variable occurrences (using a forward chaining algorithm), hence by using this test, join can be refined.
There are many occurrences of an author's name alone in brackets as the only reference to the source.
Explanations of such occurrences as inattention or neglect can, of course, verge on counterfactual history, with all its potential hazards.
Applying this equation reduces a list by keeping leftmost occurrences.
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Collocations withoccurrence

occurrence

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actual occurrence
However, it is impossible with any confidence to interpret threats based on evidence concerning the actualoccurrence of what is threatened.
annual occurrence
Offences for over-priced ale were an annual occurrence, and the same defendants appeared regularly.
chance occurrence
This is the signature of true association rather than a random or chanceoccurrence.
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