occurred

• It was while on one of these, in December, 1607, that that incident of his career occurred which is all that a great many people know of Captain John Smith. —  American Men of Action
• While true that science will explain why things occurred (in relation to sequences of events), and how they occurred, the professor loses all credibility by working from the unsubstantiated basis that there is a "wisdom" at work. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• Believing that non-living compounds somehow organized themselves into a self-replicating (likely photosynthetic as well) single celled organism, which then multiplied and evolved into the incredibly complex array of lifeforms that we see today even though no good explanation exists for how this occurred is a giant leap of faith. —  California Literary Review
• Their products file an alert when a major business service outage has already occurred, which is a little late. —  Press Releases
• Though some say prejudice is to blame for the atrocities that occurred, that is not wholly correct. —  Greeley Tribune - Top Stories

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