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transpires

  • present tense form
    of transpire (3rd person singular).
    transpire
    verb (used without object)
    to occur; happen; take place.

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In an era when short TikTok and YouTube videos are being blamed for eroding attention spans and fueling a reading crisis, social media, it transpires, is creating new audiences for the classics.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

It transpires it is not well liked in the US.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Freedom of the seas, it transpires, is challenging to enforce.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

For one, the romance that transpires is between a living male and, let’s say, a ghostly woman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

We do not know what transpires within the Town, but there is much Word among the assembled Regiments that it is become a Prison & only those who obtains Passes from Gen. Gage may leave.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson