cooccur
Definition
- Verb:
- To occur together or simultaneously: To happen at the same time or in the same place.
- To be found together: To exist or appear in conjunction with something else.
Usage
The verb cooccur describes when two or more events, phenomena, or items happen at the same time or are regularly found together. It is often used in academic, statistical, or linguistic contexts to describe correlations or simultaneous appearances.
Examples
- Verb:
- These two symptoms often cooccur in patients with this syndrome.
- In this language, certain sounds cooccur frequently, while others never do.
- The study analyzed which words cooccur in the same sentence.
Advanced Usage
- "cooccur with": This is the standard prepositional phrase used with the verb.
- High stress levels cooccur with poor sleep quality.
- Statistical/Linguistic Context: In corpus linguistics, researchers study how words cooccur to understand language patterns.
- The software identifies words that cooccur with a frequency greater than chance.
Variants and Related Words
- Cooccurrence (n): The fact or instance of occurring together.
- The cooccurrence of these factors suggests a common cause.
- Cooccurring (adj): Happening or existing together.
- The doctor treated the cooccurring conditions.
Synonyms
- Accompany: To go along with or be associated with.
- Coexist: To exist at the same time or in the same place.
- Concur: To happen or occur at the same time.
Notes
- Spelling: Also commonly spelled as co-occur (with a hyphen).
- Formality: This word is more common in formal, technical, or scientific writing than in everyday conversation. In casual speech, phrases like "happen together," "go together," or "are found together" are often used instead.
Verb
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go with, fall together
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