happen along
idiom
variants
or happen by
US, literary + old-fashioned
: to come to or by a place by chance
He was about to leave when his old girlfriend happened by.
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With cancer or any other severe illness, the drugs a person’s been prescribed are working overtime to ultimately help them—despite the frustrating and painful side effects that can happen along the way.
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Julia Sullivan, SELF, 25 Mar. 2024
Some 900,000 earthquakes happen worldwide every year, but the majority happen along plate boundaries, not in the eastern and midwestern U.S., according to Michigan Technological University's Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024
What will happen along the interstates leading to the bridge?
—The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2023
Pivots can happen along the way as your project changes, and that’s OK.
—Mary Shores, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
Many misunderstandings may happen along the way, especially as data travels across departments.
—Adi Polak, Forbes, 26 May 2022
When Auburn University sophomore Bryce Albert and his buddies headed to Palm Beach last week, his mom worried about the hours-long drive and all that could happen along the way.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 26 Mar. 2021
Did all that happen along with a big increase in the national debt?
—James Pethokoukis, TheWeek, 10 Oct. 2020
Samantha Hopkins of the University of Oregon points out that more digs happen along her state's paved roads than along dirt ones.
—Katie Peek, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2021
Julia Sullivan, SELF, 25 Mar. 2024
Some 900,000 earthquakes happen worldwide every year, but the majority happen along plate boundaries, not in the eastern and midwestern U.S., according to Michigan Technological University's Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024
What will happen along the interstates leading to the bridge?
—The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2023
Pivots can happen along the way as your project changes, and that’s OK.
—Mary Shores, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
Many misunderstandings may happen along the way, especially as data travels across departments.
—Adi Polak, Forbes, 26 May 2022
When Auburn University sophomore Bryce Albert and his buddies headed to Palm Beach last week, his mom worried about the hours-long drive and all that could happen along the way.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 26 Mar. 2021
Did all that happen along with a big increase in the national debt?
—James Pethokoukis, TheWeek, 10 Oct. 2020
Samantha Hopkins of the University of Oregon points out that more digs happen along her state's paved roads than along dirt ones.
—Katie Peek, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2021
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