taking place
Example Sentences
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“We couldn’t be more excited for Fox Sports to present the single biggest sporting event in history taking place in our own backyard,” Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks said last year.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
A series of military exercises taking place in empty buildings across the Southland are scaring residents and rattling neighbors as the sound of gunfire rings out in the dark and troops descend from helicopters.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
One of the victims was shot in an area close to the Laikipia Airbase where a demonstration was taking place.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
A small number of the crossings are taking place through a part of the Gulf that the U.S. cleared earlier this month as part of its short-lived “Project Freedom.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
Zero and the infinite were at the very center of the philosophical war taking place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
