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"At first I just felt dizzy -- it didn't occur to me it was an earthquake, I'd never experienced that before," Carmel Delgado, a 47‑year‑old economist, told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

At no time did it occur to me that this was the precise behavior I had judged in the ’70s Iranian activists and ’90s Southern evangelicals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

But did it occur to me as a plausible scenario?

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

But on the set of The Osbournes, the idea of capturing regular life was so new, it didn't yet occur to producers how far they could push the narrative.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2025

“And it did not occur to you that he may have simply found something better to do?”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood