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  • The Delacours, it soon transpired, were helpful, pleasant guests.  (source)
    transpired = became known
  • I say "probably" because of what transpired four days after Norton's summit assault.  (source)
    transpired = happened
  • It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand.  (source)
    transpired = became known
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  • But it transpired that this was a request which Joe had just been going to make of Tom, and had come to hunt him up for that purpose.  (source)
    transpired = became known
  • Now imagine the impact these cameras would have had in the past, and will have in the future, if similar events transpire.†  (source)
    transpire = happen; or become known
  • As all this was transpiring, Pakistan's foreign minister was visiting the White House and hearing President George W. Bush publicly praise Musharraf's "bold leadership.†  (source)
    transpiring = happening
  • He said, "If ever it transpires that I am in trouble, I shall indeed send for you."†  (source)
    transpires = happens
  • It's called transpiration.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Were you ever in the habit of writing in the evening what had transpired in the morning?  (source)
    transpired = happened; or became known
  • From time to time promising features would appear on the distant horizon—ravines, maybe mountains, maybe even cities—but as they approached the lines would soften and blur into anonymity and nothing would transpire.†  (source)
    transpire = happen; or become known
  • Trapped and scared, and not exactly sure what was transpiring.†  (source)
    transpiring = happening
  • A small part of what transpires is what I call the aha!†  (source)
    transpires = happens
  • Several thousand men had grouped around small fires: now and then sharp gusts of wind sprayed water on them, but the wind was cold and dry enough to take the water up in almost instantaneous transpiration.†  (source)
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