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Recent Examples of co-occur
Sometimes, these factors can co-occur with stress, leading to hair loss.
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Michael MacIntyre, Verywell Health, 31 Jan. 2025
Excessive alcohol use is linked to cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, and mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression often co-occur with high levels of drinking.
—Cassie Shortsleeve, SELF, 3 Jan. 2025
Many individuals with autism also experience co-occurring health issues such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, seizures, or chronic gastrointestinal problems.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
Anxiety Anxiety disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), can co-occur with polyphagia due to the emotional and psychological impact on eating behaviors.
—Sarah Jividen, Health, 5 Dec. 2024
And thanks to atmospheric conditions, these two factors are most likely to co-occur during the late fall and early winter.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 21 Oct. 2024
The ‘Hikikomori’ syndrome: worldwide prevalence and co-occurring major psychiatric disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
International Journal of Social Psychiatry.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
Mental health conditions, like anxiety and depression, can also lead to or co-occur with insomnia, but insomnia also dramatically increases the risk of developing these conditions.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 9 Jan. 2024
Over time, a neural network trained to predict which words co-occur with other words learned to place similar words (like dog and cat) close together in vector space.
—Timothy B. Lee and Sean Trott, Ars Technica, 31 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for co-occur
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Other records show the mayor was accompanied to the Philippines by his foreign affairs adviser – a city employee on loan from the U.S. State Department.—
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And in another filmed short, original cast member Laraine Newman’s nostalgic return to Studio 8H was accompanied by Pete Davidson’s bored, dim Chad.—
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The hospital boom coincided with China’s economic rise, resulting in more people living healthier and for longer.—
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Kellogg’s trip to Kyiv coincided with recent barbs between Trump and Zelensky that have cast further doubt on the future of U.S. support for Ukraine’s war effort.—
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That’s part of the beauty of St. Barts—the hotels all coexist as part of one ecosystem, guests at one property dining at restaurants of another, creating a steady churn of new faces and moods.—
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The seasons change, the significant intertwines with the insignificant, and beauty and ugliness coexist.—
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“Co-occur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/co-occur. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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