happen

[Hap·pen]

Come to pass

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To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

Verb
come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

Verb
come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"

Verb
happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)

Verb
come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

Verb
chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!"

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v. i.
To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

v. i.
To take place; to occur.


Happen

Hap"pen , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Happened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Happening.] [OE. happenen, hapnen. See Hap to happen.] 1. To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
There shall no evil happen to the just.
2. To take place; to occur.
All these things which had happened.
To happen on, to meet with; to fall or light upon. "I have happened on some other accounts." Graunt. -- To happen in, to make a casual call. [Colloq.]

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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Usage Examples

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

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