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The disaster that has befallen Blatten is the worst nightmare for communities across the Alps.

From BBC

What has befallen the Democratic Party in 2024 is a catastrophe, and it must be understood in those terms.

From Salon

She believed that the only way for her characters to overcome the horrible circumstances that had befallen them was to band together and fight the giant corporate farms that were overtaking the agricultural industry.

From Salon

That bankruptcy sale, in turn, capped the bizarre misfortunes that had befallen a beloved player in Skagit County’s nursery sector.

“So, I’m very happy to have him resign. Stop the embarrassment that has befallen the people of his district and the state of New York. Just go away.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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