happen
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The Himalayas have already seen devastating examples of what can happen when glacial lakes burst their natural dams.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“It may as well happen now,” he added.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Or go about our business, hoping that they happen to other people?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Watching older workers get laid off from his company made him realize the same could happen to him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
We never knew whether these people had been spirited away by the Gestapo or gone into hiding before this could happen.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
However the split happens, it’s yet another twist in the Wilson saga.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
“That’s what happens when you feel discouraged or like nothing’s going to change.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The film's simple premise involves what happens when a wish comes true.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
"And what happens then, nobody knows. But could it be catastrophic? Yes, it could."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
“But what happens when I ask you to hold all of his asks at once?”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
He noted that the nation's "intensely compressed" industrialisation happened in just a few decades, while it took centuries in many Western countries.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner’s first chase happened in the 1949 short “Fast and Furry-ous,” directed by animator Chuck Jones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
"I think what happened was the minute she started to not respect the level of tennis her opponent was playing, she couldn't handle it at all," added Croft.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The way The Wall Street Journal described what happened next, Taco Bell essentially built a lettuce war room.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Ba and Ma had been married by an arrangement of some sort, and I knew it still happened.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
To understand why these systems behave the way they do, we have to look at what is happening inside them, as we would with any other mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
"Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and we don't feel pressure on that," Altman told Fortune business magazine on Friday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
So when, like Tom, we can no longer pretend that truly terrible things aren’t happening, what should we do next?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
She realised what was happening around them was no accident.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
This was the last thing in the world I expected the monkeys to do, and I didn’t like what was happening at all.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
