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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While the US Constitution allows presidents to join treaties "provided two thirds of Senators present concur", it does not specify what happens if they were to withdraw, which means Trump's move could face legal challenges.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026
I call the day before Christmas Eve “Christmas Adam,” and I concur that it’s a great evening to have a party.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
Sifma hopes the Senate will concur next year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
Christopher Marlowe truthers aside, William Shakespeare was an actual person who, historical records concur, married a pregnant woman eight years his senior and had three kids: Susanna, the eldest, and twins Judith and Hamnet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
He glanced toward Mr. Sloat; he seemed to concur.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Usually, the model concurs that I did it myself.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 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
Jeronimo concurs: “If Apple can’t get memory, no one else will.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Neighbours star Stefan Dennis, who played villain Paul Robinson for 40 years on and off, concurs.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
With this opinion the present writer fully concurs.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
Bank of America Institute concurred that lower-income households are feeling more stress and cutting back.
From MarketWatch ● May 16, 2026
Walking by reporters during the game, Bob Stiles, who made a famous goal-line stop on a two-point conversion to seal UCLA’s upset win over Michigan State in the 1966 Rose Bowl, concurred.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
Skipper Jeremy Williams concurred, but said the errors were fixable.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
Europeans knew he would push them to spend more on defense, and many concurred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
“The picture that emerged,” concurred Hunt, “was that of a brilliant, unstable man.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Justice Brett Kavanaugh filed an opinion concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
That’s especially useful during a global event like the World Cup—when even the most devoted soccer fan is hard-pressed to keep track of every group-stage result, knockout permutation, and concurring match windows.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2026
Could it have been because concurring Justices other than Thomas and Gorsuch had demanded legal complications that Justice Alito painstakingly included in his opinion?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
“There was no search here,” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote in a concurring opinion that defended the use of this tracking data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
Oppenheimer’s theme was picked up in two concurring opinions issued with the report.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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