transpires
- present tense form of transpire (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Freedom of the seas, it transpires, is challenging to enforce.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026
There is a collective, unwritten understanding that what transpires within a team, stays in the team.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025
This woman, it transpires, is fleeing an unhappy marriage; she invites herself onboard and persuades Jatgeir to run away with her.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
What transpires is simply another line of questioning, like finally completing a 1,000-piece puzzle, only to somehow find another piece sitting under the instructions in the box.
From Salon • Sep. 25, 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
