transpired
Example Sentences
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What transpired during the exercise, with the details reported here for the first time, exposed serious tactical shortcomings and vulnerabilities in high-intensity drone combat.
“In the days that followed the election, when the mission was over, we sat and reflected on what transpired,” Conley said.
From Salon
While it later transpired the athletes themselves were not aware of the tampering, FIS said their team had "tried to cheat the system" by putting reinforced thread in their jumpsuits.
From BBC
"When we got there we saw what looked like a log of wood and that transpired to be a torso, which had stayed exactly where it had gone in. Which was quite remarkable."
From BBC
But what transpired was a kind of tongue-in-cheek muscle-man competition that gave each of the men a solo excursion as if emulating the “talent portion” of such affairs.
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