Verb
The word is derived from occur
of Occur
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. Cicero
Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave. Quentin Crisp
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. Bertrand Russell
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. Thom Yorke
It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it. Carroll Quigley
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. F. Scott Fitzgerald