make happen
Example Sentences
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The blockbuster made Mr. Lucas obscenely rich and that allowed him to build the independent Bay Area studio Mr. Coppola could never quite make happen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
“A culture is not what a politician, or a CEO, or a pop star says it is. It is what we make happen in our homes.”
From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025
Reshoring it would require "many tens of hundreds of billions of dollars in both private and public sector investment to make happen", according to Mr Bartlett.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025
When the Giants got the sense Ohtani seemed to want to stay in Southern California, Zaidi said there was a realization it might be a hard agreement to make happen despite the proposed financial commitment.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2023
There was one other thing I could make happen.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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