befallen

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In baseball, curses are no joking matter, and the Curse of the FTD Burger might now have befallen the team.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026

The same fate could’ve easily befallen this movie, too.

From Salon • May 1, 2026

“This is a devastating tragedy that has befallen the Reiner family,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

That's the fate that has befallen SchwuZ, whose director Katja Jaeger says is "the oldest and biggest queer club in Germany", if not Europe.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Booth’s achievement is described in the Richmond papers as “the most deplorable calamity, which has ever befallen the people of the United States.”

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly