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"Back in the day, it was difficult because you're working on a shoestring budget, trying to make things happen," says Painter.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
"I didn't tell anyone until the very last day because I wasn't sure it would happen... I didn't have much time to say goodbye," said Arafat.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
China’s car manufacturers would love to see rapid, Chinese-style electrification happen elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Certain things have to happen in “House of the Dragon” for it to align with “Game of Thrones,” including the end of the age of dragons, which means Rhaenyra must fail, big time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Nevertheless, this tiny tree fire was probably the most exciting thing to happen all year.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
If that happens, today’s valuations may prove far less demanding than they appear.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
But trauma triggers can be an issue when conception happens outside a clinic, in the context of a loving relationship—and they can be scary to deal with.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
A solar eclipse happens when the Moon moves directly between Earth and the Sun, covering the Sun and casting a narrow region of Earth into darkness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
The intro gets blasted at sporting events to raise energy or when something good happens, and it never fails to rally a crowd.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 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 what happened in 2018, when a father and daughter were filmed being ejected from a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Atlanta.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
And what if the worst happened, and the U.S. government actually ended up imposing any official “haircut” on Treasury bonds, paying out less than 100 cents on the dollar even in nominal terms?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
And that might have happened, if the Sex Pistols had booked their first U.S. tour through the kinds of major, music-friendly cities that most bands visit.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
The person then reportedly "panicked and left the premises" after realising what had happened, according to the Ofcom statement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The climax was the dedication of a memorial plaque explaining what had happened to Phineas and to brain science as a result.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
The AI’s creators and users can be unaware this is happening because, as some AI developers admit, people don’t always know why AI does what it does.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Having defended her original comments, she said recently that she now wanted the conversation to return to what was happening on court.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
I think you also have, as this is all happening, a kind of professionalization of the Supreme Court.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
“It’s like going into shock, but a good kind of shock. ‘This is happening — it’s really happening.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Before I know what’s happening, Luna is a bouncing, rotating blur, doing a sequence of cartwheels, roundoffs, backflips—who even knows what.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
