Experience in Australia indicates that after a devastating weather event, up to one-fifth of people suffer the debilitating effects of extreme stress, emotional injury, and despair.

I went to an event in San Francisco last week.

Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.

In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.

Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.

If X is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: X=1, X=2, X>5,X̸=4, and X isin 1,3,5.

1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33,
[…] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]

c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178,
ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold
The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.

This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.

1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198,
For as I would my gorget have undon
To event the heat that had mee nigh undone,
An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,
Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.

1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe),
[…] as Phœbus throws
His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,
Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d
A loose and rorid vapour that is fit
T’ event his searching beams, and useth it
To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye,
Cast in a circle round about the sky […]

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