recurrently
- adverb
- /rɪˈkɜrrəntli/
- The train runs recurrently every fifteen minutes, making it convenient for commuters.
Examples
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In their progression to adulthood, gifted children recurrently negotiate different social and emotional tasks than other children.
Academic text (1995) -
In his later years, Leibniz recurrently expresses the view that physical bodies are merely "well-founded phenomena," with the only real substances existing in the world being the monads.
Academic text (2016) -
I dream recurrently of the puppy, loose and chasing me.
Fiction book (1991) -
Nevertheless, the bottom line seems to be that the units have recurrently reorganized their activities over time, revolving around their core research themes.
Academic text (2018) -
The regressive longing for immersion comes at us recurrently as we move through the exhibition.
Academic text (2002) -
Third, the Western powers have intervened recurrently in the region to buttress client regimes and to protect their other imperialist interests.
Academic text (1992) -
Another impulse cropped up recurrently in 19th-century commentary on sleep, emphasizing moral compensation.
Academic text (1996) -
Intrinsic factors—achievement, recognition, work itself, and responsibility—were recurrently mentioned by respondents as sources of satisfaction.
Academic text (1994) -
He visits his grandmother recurrently, attending her birthday every year without fail.
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She reads that book recurrently, finding new insights each time she picks it up.
Synonyms
Often at the same or fixed times
It happens again and again
Many times on different occasions
Happens many times, usually within a short time
Happens often at set times
Very often on many occasions
Happens again and again for many days in a row
Happens every day for a long time in the same boring way
Every day for a long time without any change
In a steady pattern of sound or movement
Happens every year or for a long time
Again and again in the same way, often causing boredom or annoyance
In a way that repeats at regular times
Antonyms
How Often
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word recurrently comes from the parts re- meaning 'again' and currere meaning 'to run', and you can see the same root in current. So, recurrently is like 'running again', meaning something that happens again and again or at regular times.