happen

[hap-uhn] / ˈhæp ən /

VERB

come to pass; occur

Synonyms

STRONGEST

appear arise arrive crop up develop fall go on hit materialize meet pass result take effect take place transpire

STRONG

befall betide bump chance down ensue eventuate follow issue light proceed recur shake smoke spring stumble supervene

WEAK

be found become a fact become known become of come about come after come into being come into existence come off luck present itself stumble upon turn out turn up what goes

Antonyms

STRONGEST

cease disappear fail halt lose stop

STRONG

precede

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It’s essentially the same thing that happens when you mix a bag of cement from the hardware store today.

From The Wall Street Journal

That situation could happen even if disruptions to energy supplies were relatively short-lived.

From The Wall Street Journal

More research is needed to determine exactly why these changes are happening, Mahoney noted.

From Science Daily

"And that's very frustrating, because we know in our own Solar System that particles can sometimes be more important for what happens to planets."

From Science Daily

To explore what happens after these proteins enter human cells, the researchers mapped more than a thousand interactions between bacterial effector proteins and human proteins.

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