happen

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Orlando Ward, director of community affairs for VOA, said he wasn’t sure why the organization’s numbers were so high, but that helping people change detrimental behaviors “doesn’t happen overnight.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

It didn’t happen right away this time, but investors who held through March’s market tumult are finding that the classic geopolitical playbook for the U.S. equity market is finally starting to pay off.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

“We need to integrate them and connect them together, but that can happen quite fast. They don’t have to get imported from some other place.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

This isn’t meant to reduce Bertei’s work or what she accomplishes; it’s meant to point out that this is how it should actually happen all of the time, but rarely does.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

From the musk ox’s expression, one might conclude that not knowing what may happen was the worst part of exploring.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el