befall
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European elections keep rolling around whether anyone wants them or not, and the next will befall the U.K. in early May.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
It’s not the first calamity to befall the family in the West Bank.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
There’s also discussion about moving around steelhead to create backup populations should calamity befall one, as well as boost genetic diversity of the rare fish.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025
I am not suggesting such fate will befall Trump.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025
Or the Ninety-first Psalm: “There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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