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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. simple past tense and past participle of happen.
Etymologies
- Middle English happenen, from hap, chance; see hap.
Examples
“I swore under my breath, because it had happened without me even realizing it'the only way it ever happened_ 'anymore.”
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“I know I don’t know the truth about Andy or what happened, or why it happened but it happened.”
“There we were again, left without a keyboard player, and I started asking around until somebody told me that I should go see this band that had this great singer and piano player, and his name happened to be Isaac Hayes.”
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“Perhaps their greatest moment on the title happened towards the end of the run, with the classic storyline that was so influential that it must have been homaged about three gazillion times since then - where Spider-Man is trapped under heavy rubble and is forced to fight against all odds to escape with the cure for Aunt May suffering one of her many illnesses.”
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“Whatever his title happened to be in the White House, I always knew that his real job was figuring out to make good policy good politics," Clinton said.”
“The story of how this happened is a cliffhanger as well as an first-hand introduction to the people and places of a region little understood by most Americans.”
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“What appears to have happened is that while I was using my implants to interface with the company servers, my mind somehow … imprinted itself on them.”
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“That's because Sue frequently asks me to undertake projects I could do in no time if my name happened to be Bob Vila.”
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“Basically what happened is the peso declined in value relative to the dollar from 3.5: 1 to 7: 1 in a week when a new president relaxed monetary controls that had been artificially maintaining it at the lower rate.”
“This means the rain happened so fast the water just tore into the riverbed.”
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