happen
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"Hardships can happen to any person at any time, at any place," he said, adding "we will move forward".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Delays sometimes happen if soldiers aren’t trained, or if the communications parts, made by a separate company, have glitches, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
“The trick to options trading is, did the underlying move happen quickly enough to defeat your decay,” Sosnick said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
"That mustn't happen again in the 21st Century."
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
‘Don’t look so worried; it might never happen.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Finding additional examples could help astronomers determine how common this process is, how long it can persist, and what ultimately happens to objects trapped in such extraordinarily close relationships.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Thorne added that the behaviour pointed to "a much wider problem around AI literacy", adding there was an urgent need for better education about what happens when people upload personal material to AI systems.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Scientists can’t say with certainty why this happens to some people and not others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“But I do think it’s important to keep whatever happens this year in perspective.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
‘Who decides what happens to me? Why can’t I be there to defend myself? Who are all those people by the fire?’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"This is the pioneering study showing that polyethylene can contribute to fatty liver disease and the use of spatial transcriptomics has determined exactly where the damage has happened within the liver," Joshi said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
That happened twice after Aviva was purchased by Athene, an insurer backed by private-asset giant Apollo Global Management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
That happens in football - it happened to me - when you know what you can't do, as much as you know what you can do.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
But two weeks later she called the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and told them what happened.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Dad tells Aunt J and Arlo what happened in the car.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
“It’s like a sense of betrayal, you know, that happening to my dad … like what was the point in all this?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
What’s happening in France is staying in France bond-wise for now.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
She said: "It is ridiculous. It really should not be happening in this day and age."
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Even more remarkably, the transfer of material appears to be happening so slowly that the star could continue feeding on its companion for hundreds of thousands of years, potentially even billions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
He’s still convinced one of us may develop an interest in his beloved language, even though I’ve informed him there’s a zéro percent chance of that happening.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
