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Hartman thanked his lobbyist for making it happen.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
At the weekend, the prime minister asked rhetorically what would happen if he stepped down.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
She wants guests to feel transported into a fantasy universe, and understands how to make that happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
"It's the last thing you would think would happen here."
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
“I’m just trying to figure out the goal. Why you need to do this at all. What you think will happen if you don’t.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
North Korea has been ruled by the Kim family for three generations, but what happens after Kim Jong Un remains less certain than it was for his predecessors.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
It is about what happens when corporate power no longer values a news organization’s independence as a principle to be defended.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
It has become a powerful research tool because scientists can use it to switch specific groups of nerve cells on and off and see what happens.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
But when it happens, Wilson wants investors to be ready and he expects quality stocks to lead the recovery.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
I may not know what I’m doing, but I’m definitely okay with seeing what happens next.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
They pressed him for details about what happened in South Carolina, quizzing him on his dinner with Graham and a second in-person meeting he said he had with Clyburn.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
The biggest reason for the impasse is that the Knicks happened to build a championship team at one of the most challenging moments NBA roster construction has ever known.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
A statement released by his parents said Haines had been "our friend for more than 20 years and what happened to her yesterday is devastating and unfathomable", The Age newspaper reported.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Using a powerful microscope, Collins and his colleagues examined what happened when the coral fragments touched.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
It explains what happened to our knowledge of the brain as a result.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Mallat, who has recently published a book on maths and AI, makes a distinction between what is happening and the mechanisation of agriculture when tractors came on the scene.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
By examining these subtle movements over time, researchers can investigate processes happening far below the surface without directly observing the magma itself.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
"And certainly if that is something that should be happening now then I believe that would be the right course of action."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
“If I had to choose one word to describe what’s happening in Israeli society, it’s polarization,” said Elie Rekhess, an expert on Jewish-Arab relations at Northwestern University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
If everything happening was a puzzle piece, they were slowly clicking into place.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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