happen
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Any changes would happen over a number of years.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Babis said this week that the second reading could happen in January.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
There are several other bidders and there’s no guarantee a deal will happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The Big Bang presented an especially difficult engineering challenge because all three replacements had to happen simultaneously.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
What would happen if she never made it to the Afterlife?
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
In this first scenario, a huge wave is exactly what happens.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
One of the clearest ways to identify quark–gluon plasma is to examine what happens when energetic quarks and gluons travel through it.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
This happens, Mr. deBoer explains, when relatively high-functioning young people come together on social media to lower the threshold for qualifying for a diagnosis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
It so happens that the Boston Symphony and Gewandhaus share a music director in Andris Nelsons, who has strived to bring the two orchestras together in joint projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Just please be careful. I mean, if something happens to you, who’s gonna do my hair?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
It was hardly the first time this had happened to Benmor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
“Something happened to my house in Malibu, so I’m just sort of living in hotels. So I don’t have the normal trick-or-treaters that I would like to enjoy tonight.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
The A Level student at Holy Cross College in Strabane said she had been at the bonfire with friends when the incident happened on Saturday night.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
But a dramatic drop in consumer spending hasn’t happened — yet.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
But the innkeeper managed to calm everybody down, and he decided to conclude the ceremony immediately, before something worse happened.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
“If you see someone with a notebook or a laptop, that person wants to be left alone. If you see someone with a typewriter, there’s something happening here,” says the poet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Fights over the placement of high-voltage transmission lines are happening across the U.S. as utilities embark on what they expect to be a generational investment in the grid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
But something interesting is happening here too: A whole lot of women are running for office, and few are remarking on it.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
In the tech reset, semiconductor stocks are “ground zero for what’s happening right now,” said Keith Lerner, chief investment officer at Truist Wealth, in a phone interview Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
An explanation for all the weird stuff happening would have been nice, I guess.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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