happen
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"It will not happen overnight, but we will build a railway the country can trust and rely on and that will create growth, jobs and homes."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
They’ve been a strong partner of the tenant protections that I helped pass and were a huge voice for charter reform, including some of the things that didn’t happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
In fact, they show just how hard it is to be sure what’s going on—and should make us question confident predictions of what’s going to happen next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Faux, who has been covering the currency much longer than I have, told me he has “given up predicting what’s going to happen to Bitcoin’s price.”
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
“But the letter said you couldn’t level up tomorrow, that something bad was going to happen if we didn’t start working together,” I said.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Study co-author Professor James Murphy said the discovery revealed a 'smoldering' molecular problem and encouraged the researchers to focus more closely on what happens at the beginning of the disease process.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Eyewitness accounts can restore the missing parts of the story, including what happens afterward.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
What happens when mile-thick ice returns to Paramus, N.J.?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"A new group of shareholders might say, 'Don't declare dividends; we need to reinvest this money in the companies.' What happens then? The first casualty will be the hospitals they run," said Potdar.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
‘Who decides what happens to me? Why can’t I be there to defend myself? Who are all those people by the fire?’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Her account of what happened follows a familiar pattern.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Prof. Ratzon's study suggests that something similar may have happened with the Qumran calendar.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Times: Why, or how, do you think that happened?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
The ball happened to be in the hands of their crunch-time specialist, a do-everything quarterback named Trinidad Chambliss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
At Bos en Hoven Straat, however, Peter was a hero as one by one his family made us describe again what had happened.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"That's not right. We're not in Dickensian England. Where was the support? Why is this happening?"
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
This is not currently happening in the U.S., but since it has devastated other countries, I was eager to speak with someone who had experienced that worst-case scenario firsthand.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Phobos is unusual not only because of its mysterious past, but also because of what is happening to it today.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
If humanity doesn’t exist on a binary, perhaps the emphasis shouldn’t always be on trying to see eye to eye; otherwise, no one can take a clear look at what’s happening in the periphery.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
“I wish it wasn’t happening so soon,” Rue says.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
