as in to occur
to take place
did anything exciting happen over the summer?
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Recent Examples of happen
Shaking happens if your muscles fatigue during exercise.
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Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
On the theoretical side, Alexander Friedmann took Einstein’s field equations and considered what would happen if the Universe were uniformly filled with any form of energy at all.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
That hasn’t happened, and in his Friday statement, Andrew still spoke of duty, family, and support for his brother, the King.
—Ashley Hume , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
How to survive a landslide tsunami The August 10 landslide happened in an area popular with cruise ships and tour boats.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
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Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
On the theoretical side, Alexander Friedmann took Einstein’s field equations and considered what would happen if the Universe were uniformly filled with any form of energy at all.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
That hasn’t happened, and in his Friday statement, Andrew still spoke of duty, family, and support for his brother, the King.
—Ashley Hume , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
How to survive a landslide tsunami The August 10 landslide happened in an area popular with cruise ships and tour boats.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for happen
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The arrest occurred during a break at a hearing regarding ex-wife Denise Richards' restraining order against him.—
Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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The History of Emily Montague was published in 1769, but the Canadian Confederation—the alliance of the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia into an independent country separate from Great Britain—didn’t occur until 1867.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025
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The protests come amid a federal government shutdown now in its 18th day, broader immigration enforcement operations, and the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago and Los Angeles.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
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Regulators say more crashes may come Tesla's latest FSD software update arrived just days before the investigation began.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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According to the new research, which analyzed data from 125,000 children, there was a 36% decline in all food allergies between 2012 and 2020.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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There are also ramifications for the agriculture industry and food production.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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One issue is that hypnosis has long been viewed as a form of entertainment, a stage show with a hypnotist and an audience, which can give viewers a sense that hypnosis is something done to you rather than a process that a person is led through.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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There are a lot of very respectable academics that have done a lot of really amazing work in Black Studies and Africana Studies.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Happen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/happen. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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