concur
Americanverb (used without object)
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concurs,
present (3rd person singular)
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concurred,
past participle, past
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concurring
present participle
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to accord in opinion; agree.
Do you concur with his statement?
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to cooperate; work together; combine; be associated.
Members of both parties concurred.
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to coincide; occur at the same time.
His graduation concurred with his birthday.
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Obsolete. to run or come together; converge.
verb
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to agree; be of the same mind; be in accord
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to combine, act together, or cooperate
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to occur simultaneously; coincide
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rare to converge
Synonym Usage
See agree.
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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concursimple
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concurssimple
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have concurredperfect
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has concurredperfect
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am concurringprogressive
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are concurringprogressive
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is concurringprogressive
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have been concurringperfect progressive
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has been concurringperfect progressive
Past
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concurredsimple
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had concurredperfect
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was concurringprogressive
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were concurringprogressive
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had been concurringperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of concur
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Latin concurrere “to run together, meet, be in agreement,” equivalent to con- con- + currere “to run”; cf. concourse, current
Explanation
To concur is to agree or approve of something. If someone says something you agree with, you can say "I concur!" Like many words with con, concur has to do with agreement and being together. When you concur, you agree with someone about something or let them know you approve. "I concur" is a formal (and sometimes humorous) way of saying "I agree!" or "I hear that!" Also, two events that happen at the same time can be said to concur. People are happy when good things concur, like when a birthday and nice weather happen at the same time.
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Example Sentences
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They highlight that restrictive zoning is largely to blame for underproduction relative to job growth and concur that rent control is counterproductive as it discourages the addition of supply, even with strong demand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Sifma hopes the Senate will concur next year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
It’s not a question that can be answered easily, experts concur.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2025
Both Ejikeme and Mandi concur that interior design in Africa is still in its developmental stages.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024
If what he means is that rhetoric needs to sound right, and good rhetoric always does sound right, and that “sounding right” is impossible to set a definition for... well, I concur.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Usually, the model concurs that I did it myself.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
In “The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity’s Most Devastating Pandemic,” a vivid and sweeping new history of the outbreak, Thomas Asbridge concurs, judging it “the worst natural disaster in recorded history.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Tracy Brown concurs: “I’d be remiss not to mention that the always excellent ‘Dark Winds’ keeps getting better and is long overdue for some Emmys recognition.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Kang concurs: "It's the one song that every time I hear it, I just cry. It's very emotional."
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
I shall also endeavor to show that all the literary mind of Western Europe concurs with you.
From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh
Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon concurred, saying Dolly Parton "placed millions of books into the hands of young children and helped spark a lifelong love of reading."
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Bank of America Institute concurred that lower-income households are feeling more stress and cutting back.
From MarketWatch ● May 16, 2026
Europeans knew he would push them to spend more on defense, and many concurred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
“We need to understand that we are not yet there,” Sotelo concurred.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026
He concurred that such lively observations about homestead life would be of general interest to his readership.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Justice Brett Kavanaugh filed an opinion concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
In a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the NCAA’s other restrictions on athlete compensation also “raise serious questions under the antitrust laws”: “Price-fixing labor is price-fixing labor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
In a concurring opinion, Gorsuch stated the stakes more plainly by posing a rhetorical question: If the president’s argument was given credence, then “what do we make of the Constitution’s text?”
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026
Still, her silence stood out, and not only because two other members of the majority, Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, wrote concurring opinions to explain their contrasting views of the decision’s larger implications.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2025
Mamou found us like that, Laleh laughing at the television, me reading my book and concurring with my sister when necessary.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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