happen
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“What really scares me is what will happen several years from now, when all of us wake up,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
As part of "broader work" that needs to happen, Kotlikoff said in his video statement that there should be a "serious look at the role of fraternities and sororities in campus life".
From BBC ● 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
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
Did it happen because I’d asked for it to happen, because I went into his office day after day and asked for new vocabulary and said that I wanted to learn more, do better?
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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
He is, by his own admission, an introvert who happens to control football games for a living.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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
It’s an unspoken rule that you don’t talk about what happens during your rite.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
I ask this because of the craziness that happened Saturday night in Game 1 of the National League Divisional Series between San Diego and Milwaukee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
She said she had reported the incident two weeks after it happened to Cornell University police, which investigated, but no charges were laid.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
"What happened to Jane Doe in 2024 is deeply disturbing and will weigh heavily on our community for years to come."
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
"Something like this never should have happened, this is a disgrace."
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“Why don’t you start by telling me what happened when you tried to tell him what you needed to tell him.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
“When our bodies finally wake up and understand what has been happening throughout all these years.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
She’d already fallen asleep, so she wouldn’t know what was happening, anyway.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
