happen
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He said one of two things has to happen next: Either profits of the top 500 need to surge well past those of smaller companies or their stock prices have to get cheaper.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
The climax plays like a spoof of what might happen at a comedy club called Catch a Rising Supervillain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Like when you see shows on TV, like “Jerry Springer,” everything’s written, so he knows what’s gonna happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The team also examined what might happen when ultra-processed foods were replaced with less processed alternatives.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
“These Faith and Honor idiots have been posting warnings all day about what’ll happen if the Manor opens tomorrow. They really think they can stop us?!” she says.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
An Orthodox Jewish day school isn’t a secular school that happens to be operated by Jews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
While not necessarily romantic, it’s implied in “You Can See Everything” that the same thing happens with Holmes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
As it happens, right around that time a Venezuelan billionaire banker named Julio Herrera Velutini wanted a pardon.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
I want to find out how fair AI recruitment tools being used to help decide our futures really are - and what happens when we click "apply".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic,” said George.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
“The fraud should never have happened in the first place.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The conference happened at the same time as private-credit funds were reporting mass redemption requests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
This approach allowed the scientists to follow the construction process as it happened, effectively tracking the addition of individual molecular building blocks over time.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Its reporters were at her door on the morning it happened.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
He mutes his cell and asks, “What happened to my Funyuns? Did we run out of my Funyuns? I swear I saw a bag here.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
“The reality there is there’s just less babies being born, and there’s more substitution happening at earlier ages,” Cocks said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
“What’s happening is the market is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Librarian Regina Andrews, known for her salons, exudes the dignified air of a beloved host, vividly describing the communal groundswell every young thinker and creative then could sense happening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
"That is exactly what is happening," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
It just seemed like she was telling me a story about me and I wanted to know for sure what was happening so I could make a plan.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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