happen
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"I was told 'don't worry we'll keep an eye on her', again it just didn't happen," David said.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“That didn’t happen, but what did happen is that Kolby found a way to come back full circle to the basic principles of love and aloha.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
And IBM would be the bridge making this happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
It’s unclear what will happen with the complaint.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Kiki pushed a stroller back and forth, back and forth, like if she stopped moving, something terrible would happen.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
So, what happens to these toxins when sleep is disrupted?
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
“You can’t describe the feelings because everything happens so fast,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
All this happens after Zack turns up with a missing toe, which Anna suspects Max orchestrated.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
As it happens, thinking about ranch is his full-time job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
“No matter what happens, don’t let go. The tree is your friend and will help you stay above the water.”
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
"I thought maybe nothing wrong really happened here. Maybe it's just my reaction that is wrong," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
"So, evidence preserved on the Moon's static surface can be used to infer what happened on Earth and Mars in ancient times."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Los Angeles authorities have insisted that their original classification of Salehpour’s death was correct — and accused her wealthy family of trying to twist the facts to serve their narrative of what happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
“It all happened very quickly,” he said at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
But when things I said would happen actually happened, she started to come around.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Corporate investigations and prosecutions that were happening a few years ago “have pretty much been dialed way back,” said Evan T. Barr, a former federal prosecutor now with the law firm Reed Smith.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
But I don’t think Nolan understands that’s what’s happening here, and that’s because his “Odyssey” doesn’t have anything new to say about the original text or his beliefs as a filmmaker.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Vargas, 40, said his adrenaline was so high that he wasn’t completely processing the situation as it was happening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Laverne said the risk of that happening in her case was "pretty low".
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
In those moments, he’d been too scared to really think about what was happening.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
