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goings-on

[goh-ingz-on, awn] / ˈgoʊ ɪŋzˈɒn, ˈɔn /












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In early fall, Ben Carter checked a camera positioned to capture the goings-on in a corrugated metal tunnel installed beneath a breathtaking stretch of the 395 north of the town of Bridgeport.

From Los Angeles Times

For fellow Brussels local Michel Elias, however, the artwork allowed him to reflect on contemporary goings-on in the Holy Land.

From Barron's

"It is a very difficult game to officiate anyway, without all the extra goings-on."

From BBC

Lady Constance must have still been under the influence of the special bread Madame Ionesco had provided, for these terrible goings-on seemed not to trouble her at all.

From Literature

And then, because she simply had to trust someone, she told Simon everything: all about the strange goings-on at Ashton Place, the mysterious danger that Miss Mortimer had warned her about, and the fortune-teller’s bizarre words, “The hunt is on.”

From Literature