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“I could set up a community-based surf report for everybody, and the fact that I happen to be queer made it a little more unique,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
No one can tell you it won’t happen, but the odds any of us will live to see it are pretty low.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
I should try to make the purchase happen, I thought as I walked around Boston.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
That reaction produced the familiar signs of inflammation, including pain, redness, heat, and swelling, similar to what can happen after an injury or infection.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
What would happen if she got mad and pushed me away?
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
When this happens, they position themselves based on their team-mate on the wing - with one out wide and one more central.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“That’s what happens when you feel discouraged or like nothing’s going to change.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The film's simple premise involves what happens when a wish comes true.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
It’s because math happens to be useful marketing—a way to advertise the growing capabilities of their latest models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
‘If it happens again, she faces punishment like everyone else.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
He noted that the nation's "intensely compressed" industrialisation happened in just a few decades, while it took centuries in many Western countries.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
“A lot of apathy, for sure, because change hasn’t really happened here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The way The Wall Street Journal described what happened next, Taco Bell essentially built a lettuce war room.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
"I think 2026 is the outcome of all the years that happened before."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“Did Peter get caught? What happened? I want to know what happened.”
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Clutching the trophy on Saturday night, Rybakina reflected that "some magic is happening" for her after her difficult lead-in to the tournament.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
We need instruments that measure what is happening inside them, working models of how emotional states drive behavior, and methods to design them to be pro-social, wise and mentally healthy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
“If he endorses Karen Bass a lot of people will see him as a sellout. If he endorses Nithya, which I can’t see happening, people will say he’s just bitter at Karen Bass,” Klink said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
"Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and we don't feel pressure on that," Altman told Fortune business magazine on Friday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
A warm feeling came over me, like something familiar was happening.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
