transpire

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Carney added he was awaiting a response from Air Canada’s board about why this was allowed to transpire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Analysts are split about whether that sort of transaction could still transpire in the near term.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026

Each, it will transpire, carries a burden of guilt dating from the invasion.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

How that will transpire is unclear, but it yet again raises the prospect of disagreement, vetoes and stand-off.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

An unaccountable serenity had stolen upon me; I felt the operations of my wits as clean and mechanical, aiming only at that which needed to transpire: the flight at the appointed time across the mud.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson