happening
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I was rooting for the guy the whole time, but it’s like: How can I fall in love with this if I don’t know what’s happening?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
What is not happening with mental health, though, is an increase in severe mental illness.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
That risk is particularly important in the years just before and after retirement: A large market decline early in retirement can damage your portfolio more than a similar decline happening many years later.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Glancing at the political calendar, though, the gains are happening right on schedule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He clawed at the stall wall in a panic, until, suddenly, he understood what was happening.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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It’s all part of the strange happenings taking place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Bill Pullman, Geena Davis, Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard and more star in an eight-part series about a retirement community beset by strange happenings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The litigation unveiled the private happenings of Hollywood elite, including texts and emails from Lively, Baldoni and their host of A-list friends.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
Other happenings signal that significant changes may be on the horizon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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