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“Typically the way revisions happen, they start at an elevated level, and then they tend to fall over the course of the year, or over the course of the quarter, into the reports,” said Palfrey.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
A solution to the fusion problem to unleash clean cheap energy and save our planet could happen within five years, another major technologist has said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Carly is very fearful that something will happen to Finn," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
County supervisors have pushed to shut down the facility, but plans for how to close the jail and questions of what would happen to the inmates housed there have delayed action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
This kind of stuff started to happen more often once PCP bought an apartment building in the heart of North Davey called Millwood Manor.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
No matter what happens with your career, you’ll be successful.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
"Nothing happens by accident at Apple," Wood added.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Because there is a renegotiation that happens, quietly, every single season.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
What happens this week is the opposite, an NFL opener between the Rams and San Francisco 49ers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
This is exactly what happens, she thought, when you agree to play with somebody else.
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
But with 86 still missing, this ferry disaster could prove to be among the worst to have happened in the Philippines in recent years.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
I quote Mr. Jenkins’s Sept. 12 column only because I happened to read it that day and because his cold and lordly tone captures the European chattering classes’ response to the event.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
“We play such an ... important role in everything that’s happened here,” said Rivera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It felt like being comfortably, stubbornly myself in a room full of people I loved who simply happened to be wrong.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
All this happened in a little village in a province called La Mancha, in the heart of Spain.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
“The beauty of anthropology for me is that I can telescope out and try to understand what’s happening to society right now,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
"That should happen in a way that they can maintain their trust and their confidence in what's happening."
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” wrote Evan Hubinger, an Anthropic researcher who puts the odds of that happening within the next decade at more than 10 percent.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
To reconstruct what was happening tectonically at the time, the researchers used magnetic fabric analysis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Edda?” the voice asks for a third time as I finally begin to settle enough to process what is happening.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
