befall

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Recent Examples of befall Even more scrutiny would have befallen that big three. Zach Harper, New York Times, 18 June 2025 Residents are frustrated and angry because such outages have befallen Puerto Rico for years. Jade Walker, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2025 While American higher education has been distracted, disaster has befallen the Class of 2025. Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025 Card values can go down, but not as near to zero as is possible when bad news befalls active athletes. Michael Salfino, New York Times, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for befall
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Verb
  • There was a fan-cast that happened that same day, and the first person to post something, their fan cast was me.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 July 2025
  • Nothing that happened in the meeting between Jaishankar and Wang Yi changes this larger reality.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • Riccardo Boni, 17, was on a beach at Montalto di Castro, a resort about 70 miles north of his home city of Rome, with his parents and siblings when the incident occurred at around 3 p.m. local time on Thursday, July 10, per local outlet Il Messaggero.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 12 July 2025
  • The teen, identified as Riccardo Boni by several Italian media outlets, was vacationing in Montalto di Castro, Italy, with his family when the incident occurred on Thursday, July 10.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025

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“Befall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/befall. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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