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Eventuates vs Occurs - What's the difference?

eventuates | occurs |

As verbs the difference between eventuates and occurs

is that eventuates is (eventuate) while occurs is (occur).

eventuates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (eventuate)

  • eventuate

    English

    Verb

  • To have a given result; to turn out (well, badly etc.); to result (in).
  • * 1847 , (Karl Marx) (Writing in )'', ''Marx Engels Collected Works Volume 6, p. 290:
  • Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the empancipation of the proletariat.
  • *2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 98:
  • *:Enoch Powell appeared to insult the memory of Dr. King by making a speech warning that “colored” immigration to Britain would eventuate in bloodshed.
  • To happen as a result; to come about.
  • * 2004 , (w), Fiji Senate Speech, 22 October 2004:
  • Reconciliation cannot eventuate or materialise until the proper legal procedures have been followed, that is without interference from external forces.

    occurs

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (occur)
  • Anagrams

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    occur

    English

    Verb

    (occurr)
  • To happen or take place.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred , but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}
  • To present or offer (itself).
  • (label) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
  • * 1995 , (Theodore Kaczynski), Industrial Society and Its Future ,
  • Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, [...]
  • (label) To be present or found.
  • Synonyms

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