co-occur with
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Definition
Verb: - To happen or exist at the same time or in the same place as something else; to be found together with something else. It describes a frequent or regular association between two or more things.
Usage
This verb is used to describe a statistical, linguistic, or observational relationship where one item is regularly found alongside another. It is often used in academic, linguistic, and data analysis contexts. The phrase "co-occur with" is typically followed by the noun or noun phrase representing the associated item.
Examples
- In weather reports, the term "storm surge" often co-occurs with warnings of a major hurricane.
- In this dataset, high levels of satisfaction frequently co-occur with strong customer support.
- Certain minerals co-occur with specific types of rock formations.
Advanced Usage
- Linguistic Collocation: In corpus linguistics, researchers study which words co-occur with others to understand natural language patterns.
- The adjective "heavy" tends to co-occur with nouns like "rain," "traffic," and "responsibility."
- Statistical Correlation: The term is used to describe variables that appear together more often than by chance, without necessarily implying causation.
- The study found that the genetic marker co-occurred with the disease in 85% of cases.
Variants and Related Words
- Co-occurrence (noun): The fact or instance of occurring together.
- The co-occurrence of these two symptoms is significant for diagnosis.
- Co-occurring (adjective): Happening or existing simultaneously.
- The patient was treated for co-occurring disorders.
Synonyms
- Accompany: To go along with or be associated with.
- Coexist: To exist at the same time or in the same place.
- Collocate: (Specifically in linguistics) To be regularly used together.
Related Phrases
- Go hand in hand with: To be closely associated or connected with something.
- Innovation often goes hand in hand with a willingness to take risks.
- Be correlated with: To have a mutual relationship or connection with.
- Exercise is correlated with better heart health.
Verb
- go or occur together
- The word 'hot' tends to cooccur with 'cold'