incident
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Following the breach, Coupang's boss Park Dae-jun resigned from his role, apologising for the incident.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
The incident in Orlando followed last week's warm-up game between Saudi Arabia and Puerto Rico in Austin, Texas, which was stopped for almost two hours.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
In a separate incident in Lake Forest, the mother of a 14-year-old was charged after her son allegedly crashed into an 81-year-old man in April as the boy was doing wheelies on his e-motorcycle.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Neither its inquiry into our place in the universe nor its many references, in the background, to a North Korean incident that has kicked off World War III generates much dramatic voltage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
He’d been traveling for twelve years between Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, the Philippines, Japan, Austria, and other countries, clearing customs and crossing borders without incident.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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