as in occurred
to take place
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The incident happened Wednesday on a flight from Miami to Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Brie Stimson, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024
Audio of the attack, which happened shortly after Timothy Hovanec dropped off his children at his wife’s home, was captured on a dash camera of his Volkswagen Tiguan, said an affidavit in support of criminal complaints against Hovanec.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
Engineers and operations experts can use this information to isolate where the mistake happened and why, and make changes accordingly.
—Jeff Mahler, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Harry Murphy Cruise, an economist at Moody’s Analytics, can’t help but think back to a market mini-crash that happened nine years ago.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Brie Stimson, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024
Audio of the attack, which happened shortly after Timothy Hovanec dropped off his children at his wife’s home, was captured on a dash camera of his Volkswagen Tiguan, said an affidavit in support of criminal complaints against Hovanec.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
Engineers and operations experts can use this information to isolate where the mistake happened and why, and make changes accordingly.
—Jeff Mahler, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Harry Murphy Cruise, an economist at Moody’s Analytics, can’t help but think back to a market mini-crash that happened nine years ago.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Advertisement What happened in court?
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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