Happen and Surface

Happen

Happen verb - To take place.

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Surface and happen are semantically related. in ensue topic. In some cases you can use "Surface" instead a verb "Happen".

Nearby Words: happening, happened

Surface verb - To come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly.

Usage example: no information regarding the stolen car has surfaced since the police found it abandoned on a country road

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Happen and surface are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Happen" instead a verb "Surface".

Nearby Words: surfaced, surfacing

thanks	happen thanks	surface thanks
times	happen times	surface times

They also violently swell up, something that realistically wouldn't even happen in space, and really wouldn't happen on the surface of Mars.

Source: Film / Total Recall (1990)
Tom Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation, though this didn't happen at birth, but instead due to a malfunction of the transporter that got one Riker on board and left the other on the surface. Lt.

Source: Split at Birth
Which, if you had a corridor full of oysters, could in theory serve a similar function as you restore health faster than it drains, but that doesn't ever happen so you'd better find the surface.

Source: Oxygenated Underwater Bubbles

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