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transpire

[tran-spahyuhr] / trænˈspaɪər /




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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

Being able to go into “Love Is Blind,” and hide everything and it just be myself, my personality and my confidence, and see relationships grow and transpire — honestly, it was magical.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2025

"Sport is unpredictable, you don't know how things are going to transpire," he says.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2025

We all know that opportunity would never transpire.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Freedom of the seas, it transpires, is challenging to enforce.

From MarketWatch Apr. 21, 2026

But it now transpires that Gordon Brown had asked the cabinet secretary to undertake a similar exercise as long ago as last September - although it unearthed nothing.

From BBC Feb. 2, 2026

This woman, it transpires, is fleeing an unhappy marriage; she invites herself onboard and persuades Jatgeir to run away with her.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

A cartoon version of Jenny Schecter come to life, what transpires in her novel is close, if not on the nose, to what takes place around her, buffered by changed names and literary exaggerations.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2025

Nor can all that transpires in the wider culture—from Stonewall to Will & Grace to Brokeback Mountain to Glee to a U.S. president declaring his support for legalized gay marriage—change every mind in Levittown.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Alas, the old girl couldn’t compete with the assortment of crises that transpired during the show’s three-week hiatus, including the once-in-a-lifetime comedy opportunity presented by explosive headlines about explosive diarrhea.

From Salon Jul. 14, 2026

Quebec Premier Christine Frechette said she was "deeply shaken by the tragic events," while urging people to "avoid speculation," about what transpired.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

But I didn’t really see it coming the way it’s transpired, talking about Michael in the documentary, and that time.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

“Those who truly know how it all transpired know that this 1,000-year flood could not have been anticipated.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 18, 2026

Exactly eight days after Kepler’s discovery of his third law, the incident that unleashed the Thirty Years’ War transpired in Prague.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

This Musk v Altman trial is transpiring as the public has only just started to grapple with AI's complicated entry into our lives.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

“I think it was hard enough for the SEC and others to understand what was transpiring in the market then.”

From Barron's Oct. 23, 2025

He writes about what’s transpiring in the U.S.’s northern neighbor with an eye toward the broader global context.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 25, 2025

But finer than all that was the chilling fact that Ibsen’s text, as adapted by Amy Herzog, sounded as if it had been written yesterday — and could still be transpiring in real life tomorrow.

From New York Times Dec. 4, 2023

The horror transpiring in front of me, suspended for one disbelieving instant.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon




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