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transpire

[tran-spahyuhr] / trænˈspaɪər /




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Warsh has vowed to cut down on providing insights into Fed policy positions, and on Friday again refrained from sharing his view of what may transpire at the October gathering.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The epistemic mismatch between her idea of what would transpire and the frat brothers’ is truly tragic.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

Carney added he was awaiting a response from Air Canada’s board about why this was allowed to transpire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

While major chip makers have some helium supply in reserve, there’s some uncertainty about what would transpire if the conflict were to drag on and disrupt helium production over a longer span.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026

What on earth of importance could transpire in so dingy a place?

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

In an era when short TikTok and YouTube videos are being blamed for eroding attention spans and fueling a reading crisis, social media, it transpires, is creating new audiences for the classics.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Then a letter from a lawyer arrives, and it transpires that their maternal grandfather, whom they never knew, has left them, among other things, an island in Ontario’s Muskoka Lakes district.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Freedom of the seas, it transpires, is challenging to enforce.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

And very little that transpires between the current-day Chase and his director would belie the notion that Mr. Chase’s brand has gone down a hole of his own digging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

He said, “If ever it transpires that I am in trouble, I shall indeed send for you.”

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

You wake up worried about the world—what fresh horrors have transpired overnight?

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

But it wasn't only gold on offer, it transpired.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

"I want to say broadly over the month or so that's transpired since then, the world has broadly conformed to our expectations."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

That earlier forecast assumed an earlier end to the U.S.-Iran conflict, and therefore lower energy prices than have transpired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Ser Rodrik sat on his right hand and Maester Luwin to his left, armed with quills and inkpots and a sheaf of blank parchment to write down all that transpired.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

That view has changed, but the explanation for what’s actually transpiring in the patient’s neurobiology has been hard to pin down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

This Musk v Altman trial is transpiring as the public has only just started to grapple with AI's complicated entry into our lives.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

“I think it was hard enough for the SEC and others to understand what was transpiring in the market then.”

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

But finer than all that was the chilling fact that Ibsen’s text, as adapted by Amy Herzog, sounded as if it had been written yesterday — and could still be transpiring in real life tomorrow.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

The horror transpiring in front of me, suspended for one disbelieving instant.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon


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