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“I didn’t think this was something that could happen to me,” recalled Svoboda, who worked at a cybersecurity company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
"We as a team need to reflect as to how we make sure that these situations do not happen any more," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
However, if stocks are priced too high or purchased with an abundance of debt, a crash can happen, as in 1929–33, when investors “fail to distinguish the miracle from the investment.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
“Even though that didn’t happen it was really comforting to know all the hard work you did for those days to find him. We are very grateful to you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
And I tried my hardest to ignore the dark feeling deep inside that told me that was never, ever going to happen.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Finding additional examples could help astronomers determine how common this process is, how long it can persist, and what ultimately happens to objects trapped in such extraordinarily close relationships.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
That happens in football - it happened to me - when you know what you can't do, as much as you know what you can do.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
For longer-dated options, the process of time decay happens slowly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
In my experience, it happens too often regardless of a hotel’s daily rate and sets the wrong mood for the stay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
It is possible to paddle gently up to many wild animals and they simply stand and watch—this same thing happens often with dog teams.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
The incident happened when Shaw, on the receiving end of a reckless challenge by Bentancur, raced towards the Spurs player and shoved him off the pitch.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
But two weeks later she called the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and told them what happened.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
“OpenAI has said explicitly that if their monitoring was running, this would not have happened, but they weren’t running it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Footage shows the security employee going back down the tunnel, presumably in search of the heckler, but it is unclear what happened after that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Accident victims are often too shaken to know what happened, so Dr. Williams turns to Phineas's workmen for the story, but Phineas insists on speaking for himself.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
She said: "It is ridiculous. It really should not be happening in this day and age."
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
"Although it is happening in the Middle East, it affects us here now," she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
Even more remarkably, the transfer of material appears to be happening so slowly that the star could continue feeding on its companion for hundreds of thousands of years, potentially even billions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
It is hard to imagine Nvidia’s five-year CDS reflecting much credit risk, given how much revenue and earnings have grown in recent years and the stock’s resilience, but that is exactly what’s been happening.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
She complains a little, but she seems to realize that something bad is happening.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
