happening
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By the time I remember it’s happening, all the good sweets are gone from grocery store shelves, so any visiting trick-or-treaters get butterscotch suckers, breath mints or candy corn.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
"They worked. We checked. They could see what was happening," Puente confirmed.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
“When you price for perfection, anything less than perfect is going to come back and is going to bite you, and this is kind of what’s happening here,” he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The leader of the Partido Popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who hopes to succeed Mr. Sánchez, posed a salient question: What is happening with infrastructure in Spain?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Because for the first time since Gingersnipes had arrived, he knew what was happening and what must be done.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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But rest assured, we’ll be back in your inbox with more wild happenings on Monday.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
The litigation unveiled the private happenings of Hollywood elite, including texts and emails from Lively, Baldoni and their host of A-list friends.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
They’re all free “drop-in” happenings, with no registration required.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
David Lindsay-Abaire sets his comic sights on the contentious happenings within a wealthy suburb’s neighborhood association in a new play directed by Kenny Leon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
A slow dread built up inside her as she began to make the obvious, logical and completely mistaken connections between the night’s happenings and the missing children.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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