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Discover LudwigThe phrase "so it happened" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to summarize a past event or to convey a sense of inevitability or finality. For example: "He had been warned not to cross the line, but he did anyways - so it happened."
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The team won enough games, so it happened.
"And so it happened that, one after the other, strong, independent-thinking grandmasters appeared, and caused difficulties for the regime.
"We Poles have to look truth in the eye, any truth, and say: it was so, it happened".Some nationalists would like to pretend otherwise.
Ah, but as they say, there is no real security, and so it happened that one of life's passages shape-shifted into another, sadder one.
Five or six years ago, an American soldier stationed in Munich heard her play & sent some tapes to Feather, and so it happened that her first records were issued in America.
"And so it happened that in this very year of joy for the sacrament of the priesthood, the sins of priests came to light — particularly the abuse of the little ones," the pope added.
Are your father and I invited?" And so it happened that six months after our all-day micro high school reunion, Lev and I were married at City Hall.
Although it may not be legal to do so, it happened to us in almost all of our interviews.
This student (Student M) gives a similar need-based explanation in the case of evolution of running species in a population of Cheetahs: "[Cheetahs] needed to run faster… It was necessary for them to catch their pray to survive… it occurred because of the need for the adaptation… they needed to run faster to catch food so it happened" (p. 415).
So, it happened.
Though, it did have a feeling that this was just Obama's Turn To Be Skewered -- so, it happened.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com