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• Did all that happen along with a big increase in the national debt?
  — James Pethokoukis, TheWeek, 10 Oct. 2020
• According to the outlet, more than 90 percent of all earthquakes on the planet happen along this ring.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 8 Mar. 2023
• This helps minimize the abrasion that causes fading as well as the wear that can happen along the hems, pockets, and fly and waistband edges.
  — Carolyn Forte, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2021
• And a lot can happen along the way to derail such an outcome being a reality.
  — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• Our lives happen along three spatial dimensions: depth, width and height.
  — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
• To keep pushing forward despite any negative thing that can happen along the way.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2022
• Samantha Hopkins of the University of Oregon points out that more digs happen along her state's paved roads than along dirt ones.
  — Katie Peek, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2021
• Only a believer in a perfect creation could believe that errors do not happen along the way.
  — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2013
• For mountain glaciers, the meltwater has to do some traveling to reach the ocean, and interesting things may happen along that journey.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2020
• Most interactions between humans and rattlesnakes in Utah happen along the Wasatch Front.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2022
• Supershear earthquakes are more likely to happen along long, mature faults like the San Andreas, where many years of activity have ground away a lot of the twists and bumps that might slow down an earthquake’s energy.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Elliott also said earthquakes commonly happen along this fault.
  — Jocelyn Gecker, ajc, 9 July 2021
• Though efforts at accountability have improved dramatically in recent years, misreporting on dirty practices and even outright counterfeiting do still happen along the path from sourcing to sale.
  — Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2020
• Competition doesn't naturally happen along axes of price and quality rather than bareknuckle cheating or sabotage.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 25 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024