happen
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It could happen for just a few games, as a kind of romantic end to his career.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
I don’t really know when it began to happen, but all of a sudden, seemingly overnight, friends I knew were forcing me to accompany them to search for packs of Pokémon cards.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
But preserving and expanding America’s smelting revival can’t happen without domestic downstream buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
He offered no similar ambiguity about what he believed should happen when a journalist characterized that record differently.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Do you happen to know a Rachel Allan?
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Scientists are still working out exactly how much each factor contributes, but the result is clear: the background climate in which British weather happens is getting warmer.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Powell still gets to vote on what happens next.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
To this day, the “King of Canada,” who also happens to be the monarch of the United Kingdom, is the official head of state, and full constitutional separation from Britain didn’t happen until 1982.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Harp’s taxpayer-funded job, with its unmatched access to the president, mostly happens away from the public eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Some strangers with a bunch of rules are going to decide what happens to me and Boo?
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Did anything that happened at the end of June unsettle that?
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
Stewart, in her mid-30s, was helped ashore by Charlie Verco, an elite paddleboarder who happened to be in the water nearby.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
My Journal colleague Tim Higgins in a column over the weekend explained how this happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"This has always happened, but it's happening more because so many prisons are full, and so people are sent to prisons far away," they added.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The four months in Scheveningen had been our first separation in fifty-three years; it seemed to me that I could bear whatever happened with Betsie beside me.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"Nothing is happening, updates are reaching us late. It's ruining our itinerary," 22-year-old traveller William Obino told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
"This has always happened, but it's happening more because so many prisons are full, and so people are sent to prisons far away," they added.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Metabolites can provide a snapshot of what is happening inside cells, making them useful for detecting biological patterns that may be connected to health and aging.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Much of this is already happening, with biotechs going dark to keep rivals in China from copying their work and racing it into human trials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"What is happening?" wailed Val from farther up the path.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
