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They could, like most decent people, consider the allegations and assume that, even if there is not a crime here, what is described should never happen to anyone.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Amending a contract retrospectively, say for example to include a relegation clause, generally cannot happen.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Normally when hacks happen, the evidence lies hidden behind corporate firewalls, but the swarms tracked by Piecha and others left traces of their activities scattered all over the internet—sometimes intentionally, to help each other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Durgan added: "When you drop your children off in school or nursery you never think that anything could happen to them because they are in a professional's hands."
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Don Quixote stood up and shouted: "I won't let that happen in my presence to the brave knight Don Gaiferos. Stop, you villains! Don't pursue him if you don't want to face me in combat!"
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Whatever happens in court, Walker’s case will tell a powerful story about the experience of pregnancy in America—and ask both courts and voters if anyone should be held to account.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
These include what went went wrong, what happens next, and - for opponents of the death penalty - fresh concerns around the suffering of an inmate when an execution does not go to plan.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Similar to what happens in the human brain, miBrains carrying APOE4 developed higher amounts of abnormal alpha-synuclein.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
“If you invest conservatively in food companies and transportation companies, good solid businesses that will grow no matter what happens, you’re going to be fine,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
"What if it takes six weeks? Two months, the vet says. What happens then?"
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
And something happened: The collective realization of how they’d all endured the same terrible losses took just enough steam out of the room that they began to talk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Students were not OK about what happened to Jane Doe, he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Her family’s lawsuit against state officials and medical providers seeks basic accountability for what happened to her.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
“She knows she needs to go to the police and tell them what happened but she’s stuck,” Deputy Dist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The second time it happened his parents asked if he could stay at the Beje and we agreed.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Even while filming the show in Manchester last fall, Cumming could see it all happening in real time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Machchhar said years of aviation experience allowed him to understand what was happening even while he was injured.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
She said officers needed more information from communities to prevent crime happening in the first place.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Either the XLF simply isn’t reflecting the change in steepness yet, or something else is happening in the marketplace.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Strange things were happening to them, especially when I dived.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
