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going on

adjective as in afoot

adjective as in serial

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But then I was there, about to perform on TV, and there were all these things going on, like you’re tired, or you’re being sued or your bandmate doesn’t like the deli tray.

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President Whipps Jr. said that there was a "constant battle going on" as he pointed to crimes linked to China, including scamming, illegal casinos, and cyberattacks.

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"And all the whilst he was doing this, he was going on like really crazy bougie holidays and spending crazy amounts of money that probably wasn't his."

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“These allegations permit the reasonable inference that Indyke and Kahn knew what was going on and had a hand in keeping it going,” the judge ruled.

"All my anxieties disappeared whenever I finally got an interpreter into the hospital. It means that I could finally communicate, I could finally understand what was going on."

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

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