occur
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Negotiations for an indefinite cease-fire will now occur over the next nearly two weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Addressing the incident on Thursday, President Lee Jae Myung said in a post on X: "I hope no human casualties occur and I pray that Neukgu also returns home safely."
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
I’m there to smooth out all of the snags that sometimes occur when nobody’s in charge.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
To preserve the scientific value of the tissue, donations should ideally occur within 48 hours after death, although later donations may still be possible.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026
Variation and natural selection offer cogent explanations of the mechanism by which evolution might occur within a species, but they do not explain the formation of species per se.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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