Evolve and Occur

Evolve

Evolve verb - To gradually become clearer or more detailed.

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Occur and evolve are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Occur" instead a verb "Evolve".

Nearby Words: evolution, evolving

Occur verb - To take place.

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Evolve and occur are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Evolve" instead a verb "Occur".

character	evolve character	occur character
power	evolve power	occur power
life	evolve life	occur life
thanks	evolve thanks	occur thanks
Other words: place, time, way, characters, level, species, world, language, whatever, back-to-back, times.

Indeed, going by many of their arguments, nothing could evolve into birds and evolution shouldn't occur.

Source: Artistic License Paleontology / Real Life
Some may evolve (or de-volve) into something closer resembling some progenitor vampire race, which can occur either gradually or in spurts, which makes them yet more superhuman.

Source: Our Vampires Are Different
Someone must've later told Niven that bacteria in the soil would evolve even faster than the hominids, producing new pathogenic strains, because later books do acknowledge that plagues occur on the Ringworld.

Source: Literature / Known Space

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