happen

Example Sentences

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“There’s going to be accountability on things that happened, but one of them is the incredible and immense cost borne by the people of this state. The federal government needs to be responsible.”

From Salon

The pay review body recommendation of a 3.3% rise also applies to Northern Ireland, but there has been no decision made yet on what will happen there.

From BBC

"That included back-to-back events on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Three more bleaching events have happened there since. We are seeing that reefs don't have time to recover properly before the next bleaching event occurs."

From Science Daily

Even though this single detection was unusually precise, confirmation requires seeing the same event happen again at regular intervals.

From Science Daily

In a statement, United officials said they had reached out to the airport team to understand how this happened and had apologized to the customer for his experience, offering travel credits and reimbursement.

From Los Angeles Times