recurrent
/ɹɪˈkɝənt/ adjective C1- Recurring; happening time after time. · The patient complained of recurrent chest pain.
- Non-transient.
- Running back toward its origin. · a recurrent nerve or artery
- Turned back toward the base.
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Prior to Bazalgette's brilliant intervention, recurrent outbreaks of cholera had repeatedly devastated the city, thriving in the deplorable sanitary conditions of early industrialization.
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