happening

Example Sentences

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“It’s not just intimate contact, it’s not just close contact. There is evidence that it spread without those things happening but it was absent from the official messaging for at least a week.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Now, after months of escalating controversies surrounding his leadership, Patel suddenly wants Americans to believe none of this is happening.

From Salon • May 16, 2026

Because either McCluskie is one heck of a con man who rolled both Becerra and Williamson, making both believe what was happening was kosher with entirely different tales, or someone isn’t being entirely honest.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Kirkham: The energy transition is happening faster than we anticipated for a variety of reasons.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

But when she came back to the California Institute of Technology in early May and heard what was happening at Mount St. Helens, she knew she had to get up to the volcano.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone