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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of happen.

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Examples

  • But this is a real story, so, of course, I can't put in anything only just what happens; and _nothing happens_.

    Mary Marie 1894

  • Whatever happens here, it would be better not to acquaint the police -- _whatever happens_, "he added with emphasis.

    Malcolm Sage, Detective Herbert George Jenkins 1899

  • “Especially if his name happens to be Pellinore Warthrop.”

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • “Especially if his name happens to be Pellinore Warthrop.”

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • “Especially if his name happens to be Pellinore Warthrop.”

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • We have come to understand that the idea of bipartisan compromise has died a lingering and painful death unless the term happens to refer to Lindsay Graham, who for a while kept the “bi” in “bipartisan,” appearing to have previously been—at least as far as I can ascertain—the sole Republican on board with both the immigration and climate change bills.

    The calm before the storms 2010

  • There was an eclipse of the sun when Pope John Paul II was born, and his title happens to be "Of the Solar Eclipse."

    Prophecies of St. Malachy, Part 2 elena maria vidal 2009

  • There was an eclipse of the sun when Pope John Paul II was born, and his title happens to be "Of the Solar Eclipse."

    Archive 2009-03-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • I am merely saying that its hard to take seriously anyone who claims to be a strict originalist or whatever the term happens to be, unless they support my right to own this, but that anyone who does support that "right" is out of his or her mind.

    In Defense of Corporate Taxes 2006

  • I am merely saying that its hard to take seriously anyone who claims to be a strict originalist or whatever the term happens to be, unless they support my right to own this, but that anyone who does support that "right" is out of his or her mind.

    The Courts 2006

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