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happening

noun as in occurrence

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The same way scientists can potentially identify natural agents to explain “the devil’s magic,” known geologic phenomena may influence seemingly ghostly happenings.

There was a whole commission that had been created because they were anticipating something like this happening.

From Ozy

We provide an original analysis of the latest happenings in the social media industry.

In a summer with few such happenings, it was an opportunity for people to have fun and raise some money for good causes.

From Fortune

Bhavik Soni is a Creative Writer at Auto Monkey where he provides an original analysis of the latest happenings in the social media industry.

In this war, the targeting is often happening on computer monitors thousands of miles away, capturing images from drones.

And that may well be what is happening in the Barnett Shale region around, yes, Dallas and Irving.

Make no mistake: The technology exists—has existed for a long while—to stop this from happening.

“When Tanveer realized what was happening, he jumped out of the truck, but the Iranians shot him,” Abdullah says.

Just being able to be in the loop when something is happening, it just works.

This will often save the foliage from drying up, a happening which makes the plants rather unsightly.

I want to see the sort of thing happening to schools that has already happened to many sorts of retail shops.

Happening to cast his eyes that way, he saw a light where he had never seen one before—in the little unused chapel.

Happening to walk down the Rue Saint Honoré, he had come upon tragedy.

An estate upon condition is one which depends upon the happening or not happening of some uncertain event.

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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to happening, such as: accident, adventure, circumstance, incident, milestone, and phenomenon.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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