in the event
Example Sentences
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Plug-in solar can also help in the event of an outage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Please keep all of this in mind for the reverse scenario — in the event that you die before your sister.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
She asked whether they could use their technology and know-how to engineer something that could similarly save lives in the event of wildfire flames.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Nunez promised "a strong law enforcement response" during the players' return celebrations and fines for "obstructing traffic" in the event of any intrusion onto the Paris ring road.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
It’s nowhere near as cool as our real bug-out, though—a hidden safe house our family built deep in the woods in the event of a nuclear attack, or EMP, or any other end-of-the-world scenario.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
