happen
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Speakers were concerned with just one issue: What would happen should Paramount pull out?
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
“It may as well happen now,” he added.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
This means making the right choices when are facing the food shelf happen automatically "because you have already planned the situation in which you have to act".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
This means that the negative results must happen twelve times in a row.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
What happens when you love someone like that?
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
But when it happened, he was so excited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
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
During Friday’s 9/11 commemorations, it was startling to realize that one-third of the American population today wasn’t born when it happened.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
The incident, which wasn’t previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July’s Hugging Face hack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
“The thing that happened with your dog, that’s when things finally clicked for me.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
To understand why these systems behave the way they do, we have to look at what is happening inside them, as we would with any other mind.
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
"Too often," she says, "dentists give out mouthguards without checking why it is happening."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
And not just a Cocoon, but one that made it clear that Elliot and I were supposed to prevent something bad from happening.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
