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How to use the word happened in a Sentence? Page #2

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2019 was a marvelous year in China. My family was able to visit and experience it. Then Covid happened, (At one point) I hadn’t seen my family for a year and the rules were you couldn’t bring them in while the borders were closed. A lot of footballers left because of that.

– Roberto Siucho

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1 year ago

There is no excuse for my actions. The only thing that led to what happened was my personal ignorance, agung is a sacred symbol for the Balinese. After studying the culture and religion of Bali, I realized my mistake.

– Yuri Chilikin

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1 year ago

The implication for investors is that this market is not driven by broad-based higher growth expectations but instead by what has happened with rates, in particular after [Silicon Valley Bank] went under.

– Torsten Slok

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1 year ago

But if I got on ‘SNL,’ my career wouldn’t have happened.

– Donald Glover

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1 year ago

What a lot of school leaders have learned is don’t react quickly. You’ve got a lot of pressure to do something right away but it’s really better to be thoughtful, you should assume that you don’t have a good picture of what really happened and what didn’t. Be very skeptical about claims that this saves lives or people died because of that. In Tennessee no one will have a really accurate picture of what happened there for months.

– Michael Dorn

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1 year ago

Everything happened in like five seconds. It came – boom, you could hear a lot of commotion and stuff. … I go outside, and it is crazy. People had blood all over their faces. … I’m just thankful that I’m alive.

– Stephen Swofford/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/AP William Williams

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1 year ago

My lawyer, my mom and I were poring over documents after what happened, gathering evidence to show it wasn’t me who did it, but nobody cared, i realized they would all cover each other’s backs because Russia is a police state, and I think this is what made me leave, because I was facing my main trial, but my evidence was not being considered there, either.

– Olesya Krivtsova

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1 year ago

May your spirit lead us in this pursuit of truth and justice. I will miss your infectious smile and your big hugs, we will get to the bottom of what happened to you.

– Caroline Ouko

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1 year ago

It was a small victory, but such a beautiful one. To see him put in handcuffs and the look on his face when he realized he is actually being held accountable for his crimes, it was priceless, i believe with all my heart the big victory is coming and I am more confident now than ever that we will find out what happened to Irene and where she is so that … (the) family can get peace and closure.

– Stacy Koester

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1 year ago

Clearly, I really wish, and I should have been notified sooner, so I could have initiated containment steps earlier. Had that happened, I believe we might not be here today, had the agency responded quicker to some of the earlier signals, I believe this crisis could have been averted or at least the magnitude lessened.

– Frank Yiannas

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1 year ago

The tragedy that happened in my state was the result of a depraved person and somebody very very sick. And the result has been absolutely devastating for the people in my community. Right now with the victims, the family and the people in my community – we are all mourning right now.

– Bill Hagerty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our community is heartbroken. We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing, law enforcement is conducting its investigation, and while we understand there is a lot of interest and there will be a lot of discussion about and speculation surrounding what happened, we will continue to prioritize the well-being of our community. We appreciate the outpouring of support we have received, and we are tremendously grateful to the first responders who acted quickly to protect our students, faculty and staff. We ask for privacy as our community grapples with this terrible tragedy – for our students, parents, faculty and staff.

– Covenant School

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1 year ago

We’re just kind of numb to it at this point since this has happened so much, we’re so exhausted about all this. It’s so unfair. … This happens almost every single day. I can’t even walk outside my house without feeling like I’m gonna die, or I’m gonna get shot. And it’s terrifying for everyone.

– Aubriana Acuna

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1 year ago

Together, we should push forward these changes that have not happened for 100 years. Take care.

– As Xi

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1 year ago

As much as folks feel like it’s been an unrelenting winter, we actually have gotten some at least weeklong breaks and, in some cases, multi-weeklong breaks in between these sequences, had we had this winter and everything that happened back-to-back without any breaks during the storm cycles at all, the level of flooding and the level of damage in California would be dramatically higher.

– Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Hecht

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1 year ago

They know what happened to me and that I was tortured… but never discussed the details. They just know it from Google. (If) one’s hypervigilance was a key element of them surviving a particularly traumatic period of their life.

– Alexandra Chen

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1 year ago

Neither Moscow nor Kyiv appear ready to make the concessions needed to bring the war to an end, and that is not something Beijing can fundamentally change, beijing might be able to pressure President Vladimir Putin this week to make some actions that impact the war on the margins, but so far that has not happened.

– Brian Hart

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1 year ago

What happened in 2020 and 2021 compared with 2019 is Covid, this is sort of my reflection on this time period, Covid-19 and pregnancy. Women were at increased risk for morbidity and mortality from Covid. And that actually has been well-proven in some studies, showing increased risks of death, but also being ventilated in the intensive care unit, preeclampsia and blood clots, all of those things increasing a risk of morbidity and mortality.

– Elizabeth Cherot

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1 year ago

There is nothing similar that has ever happened in climatic history in Argentina at this scale.

– Maximiliano Herrara

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1 year ago

I don’t want to speculate a lot on what’s happened there, because they’re all under investigation. And we’re all trying to determine what is going on. Is this a trend? Is this a pattern?

– Nick Calio

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1 year ago

There’s constant self-evaluation always going on. i don’t want to speculate a lot on what’s happened there, because they’re all under investigation. And we’re all trying to determine what is going on. Is this a trend? Is this a pattern?

– Nick Calio

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1 year ago

So it is the State, the Justice and the Security Forces [police and Civil Guard] who must investigate and act immediately in the face of this type of event, then, within the sports field, there is a disciplinary code that also contemplates possible sanctions for this type of conduct. We want to insist that what happened with Vinícius is a hate crime, which is criminally prosecuted.

– The AFE

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1 year ago

If they were Mexicans this would not have happened with such speed, it would not have happened at all. It does n’t happen with Mexicans, particularly in that state.

– Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

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1 year ago

It was quite striking, nobody said they had HIV. But it was just word of mouth and patients started streaming in. And the first thing that happened is that two or three weeks later, they would come back and tell you they were putting on weight. It was amazing to watch.

– Salim Abdool Karim

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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