happen on

British

verb

(intr, preposition) to find by chance

I happened upon a five-pound note lying in the street

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Two-qubit gates are operations that happen on two qubits at the same time to enable entanglement, which is when two particles share a single quantum state.

From MarketWatch

Only there are few signs to suggest that anything extraordinary will happen on the track any time soon.

From The Wall Street Journal

I even knew what should happen on Page 40!

From Los Angeles Times

Business and Trade Secretary Peter Kyle branded the network uncovered by the BBC as "unacceptable" adding it "won't be allowed to happen on our watch".

From BBC

"We've seen this happen on a population level, where you can see a cooler planet that has water and then a hotter planet that doesn't have water," Weiner Mansfield explained.

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