as in to happen
to take place
whatever befalls, we'll make the best of it and carry on
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Sadly, the midnight movie magic that befell me and my Long Treadmill compatriots will be gone from our city by then.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
The same fate that has befallen so many local-news outlets has neutered the TTT as well.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
That is the fate that seems to have befallen the capsules scattered around the world and at the MoMA.
—Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2025
But this preseason, the circumstances that so often befell a roster already too thin to begin with didn’t manifest themselves for a change.
—Howard Megdal, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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These real estate pros know what’s actually happening in a specific neighborhood can affect a home’s price, including microtrends that may not be reflected in the broader data.—
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European football governing body UEFA’s allowable loss limit is less than the Premier League’s, so lowering wages has already happened at continental level, and its squad-cost rule is directly targeted at what teams spend on players.—
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After officers arrived, a police shooting occurred, leaving the woman and child dead.—
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Does that difference, and the fact that one direction has a slightly greater redshift for its objects than the opposite direction, tell us anything about where, all those billions of years ago, the Big Bang actually occurred?—
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“Befall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/befall. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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