happen
verb (used without object)
to take place; come to pass; occur.
will have happened
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future perfectof happen.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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Twenty-five years into any new century, quite a bit will have happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
However, it is the last sentence, which expressly explains why nothing will have happened, that holds the key to the parable’s meaning.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2023
This little anticipatory poem has its way with time: it describes what Merwin imagines will have happened on March 15, 2019, but it is dedicated to, and reserved for, every March 15th thereafter.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 17, 2019
The truly sad, tragic, and pathetic thing is that it will have happened so easily, and at the hands of such an unclever, boorish, inelegant man.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2018
And that nothing will have happened to us and our helpers long before that time?
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
