hap
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Ngheu and chem chap hap sa, steamed clams and mussels, come in a buttery lemongrass broth.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
How then had a man so singularly drained of hap as the 57-year-old Israeli ended up controlling Chelsea, Portsmouth and West Ham United?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2011
Angleton and Harvey deserve to be judged by what did not hap pen, by what the Soviets were unable to achieve while they had the watch.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Tallahassee, Fla., 16-year-old Harold Knowles, one of three Negroes to start classes at Leon High School, said: "I expected some friction, but nothing hap pened."
From Time Magazine Archive
When one has such a dream and the predicted event hap pens, it’s hard not to believe in precognition.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Local clan leader Mohamed Abdirahman described the attack as horrible, adding that such an atrocity had never happed in the region before.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2022
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskiy's chief of staff, said this week the president had chosen Feb. 16 as the patriotic holiday partly ironically, in response to media reports an invasion could happed on Wednesday.
From Reuters ● Feb. 16, 2022
Much of what happed during Mr. Trump’s meeting with Mr. Putin at a Group of 20 summit in Japan in 2019 isn’t known.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
"There's a big difference between with what happed with Jared and what happened with Chick-fil-A," said Carlton, who noted that Subway cut ties with Fogle.
From US News ● Aug. 19, 2015
Someone else happed him upside the head and everyone chuckled, but Magdalys could hear the nervousness creeping around the edges of their laughter.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
And I actually listen to what these professionals say, keeping all of my self-diagnoses and Googled explanations for what's happing to my body to myself.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2020
"It is heart-breaking what is happing in Libya," said one customer, who gave his name only as Ismael.
From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2011
Ilk happing bird, wee, helpless thing, That, in the merry months o’ spring, Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o’ thee?
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Kind is the ivy green to the old remnants of by-gone power or monuments of by-gone oppression, happing up the cold stones, and draping gracefully the bare ruins.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
Ilk happing bird, wee helpless thing, That in the merry months o' spring, Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o' thee?
From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
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