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
War-weary Frenchmen, fed up with continual government crises, were hap py to let De Gaulle do the deciding.
From Time Magazine Archive
Against that untoward hap, they set about collecting his legendary sayings: "A lot of water has flowed under the dam since then."
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
He went on: “And you consate that all these steans be aboon folk that be happed here, snod an’ snog?”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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 A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs
"I wish ye had seen him," said his wife; "he was in such ecstasy that the tears were happing down his cheeks."
From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
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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