Fall and Occur

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Fall verb - Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.

Usage example: Light fell on her face

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Occur is a synonym for fall in come topic. In some cases you can use "Occur" instead a verb "Fall", when it comes to topics like happen, event.

Nearby Words: falling, fallen

Occur verb - To take place.

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Fall is a synonym for occur in happen topic. You can use "Fall" instead a verb "Occur".

life	fall life	occur life
thanks	fall thanks	occur thanks
number	fall number	occur number
death	fall death	occur death
Other words: moment, time, way, characters, bit, times, hundreds, seconds, episodes.

Unwinnable: This can occur at many parts of the game where if you fall down and can't back up or something of the similar sort, you can't progress.

Source: Video Game / I Wanna Be the Guy
In the second drama CD of Tiger & Bunny, Karina tells Barnaby that she's fully aware that this trope tends to occur between people like them, and that she has every intention of making sure that doesn't happen, because there's no way she could possibly fall in love with such a Jerkass.

Source: Belligerent Sexual Tension
Even if they kill Senya and stop its fall, other natural disasters will occur instead to wipe them out.

Source: Manga / Sengoku Youko

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