But aberrated ideas of it continually occur and recur in the same patient.

The idea of being a clown recurred to him now, only to fill him with disgust.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Again and again the idea recurred, that he loved another.

These ideas recur throughout Finnegans Wake, informing the book's four-part structure.

The idea that it is entirely natural for mothers and daughters to be particularly supportive of each other recurs again and again in research studies.

This idea recurs throughout the entire play (if you can only see it!)

That idea recurred now in a kind of panic.

An idea had recurred to him which had entered his mind on various previous occasions.

Still, the idea of French-German cooperation recurs whenever the need to strengthen conventional forces arises - because it makes so much sense.