happen
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Shame on the rest of us if we allow that to happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The video explainer referred to inspections only generally, and the state’s written guidance indicated only that this would need to happen before occupancy.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
"One way that they can make sure they're staying in the press is by having something different happen in their show every night," Snapes says.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
He added: "An environment where things like this can happen is no place to grow artificial minds that could be smarter than we are and that might not do what we want them to."
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
He clasped his paws, pleading, “So there’s a chance it might not happen? If the Universe changes its mind?”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
"It's one of those fairly typical things that happens to men and you shrug it off and think, well, it'll get better," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
In Kyiv, which is home to some three million people, residents have begun mulling what to do if that happens again.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The term is less a description of any particular food than a prediction about what happens when the people optimizing a restaurant become increasingly distant from the people cooking in it.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
When that happens, companies tend to rethink their borrowing needs, which can result in a pullback in bond issuance or more issuance for shorter periods of 10 years or less, King noted.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Then Mr. Weiss said, "These are the facts, Bartok. What do you think we should do? Wait and see what happens? Gamble that you'll get well in a month or six weeks? What?"
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
If the thermometer fails to reach 20C anywhere in the UK, it will be the first time that has happened since 11 June.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
What has happened to Tuvalu should serve as a lesson to others, scientists say.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
On Sunday, it reported another strike, but didn’t specify when the incident happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Katie Amess told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg what happened to her father "wasn't an isolated incident, we are seeing increased threats towards members of parliament".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
It explains what happened to our knowledge of the brain as a result.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
For Smith, who lived in Bradford for more than 40 years, the inclusion of his photos is also recognition that some of the cultural shifts reshaping 1990s Britain were happening far beyond London.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
"There's a 10-minute flyover of the lagoon and that's about it. There's no awareness of what's happening."
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
To explain what was happening, Jiang's team and Wilczek developed a theoretical model based on the Ginzburg-Landau framework.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
Based on what is happening in the stock market, investors have reservations too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
What in the name of the all-knowing Afterlife was happening?
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
