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transpire

verb as in occur, happen

verb as in become known

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Example Sentences

Some of the plays transpired almost precisely as drawn or conceived.

Instead, as they transpire water during the heat of the day they cool the surrounding air.

This victory also comes with its own unique context—though this time shaped by events transpiring far beyond Arthur Ashe stadium.

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“We want to see what has transpired and that way the public can have confidence their elected leaders and civil servants have conducted business with the highest level of integrity,” he said.

These contracts are essential to the process of surrogacy, because they outline specifically what will transpire during your surrogacy journey.

And how could I let such a thing as cancer transpire on my watch?

Whether all this can successively transpire in the wake of whatever happens with health-care legislation is highly problematic.

What his object was in denying knowledge we knew he possessed did not transpire till later.

To take a present instance: the verb transpire formerly conveyed very expressively its correct meaning, viz.

An event of so much importance could not be suffered to transpire without being duly solemnized.

They found the room already occupied by some six or eight street roughs, evidently waiting for what might transpire.

But an occurrence which now happened distracted attention from the so-called plot, whether real or imaginary did not transpire.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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