what's going down

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A huge amount of ink has been spilled on the “what” question: what’s going up, what’s going down, what’s a good stock, what’s not so good.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

The difference between the White House visitor logs and a kale-and-blueberry smoothie: Both are likely to produce some unsavory stuff, but we’d still like to see what’s going down inside the White House.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2017

Here’s what’s going down in L.A. and beyond:

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2014

And he leaves it to the audience to try to figure out just what’s up, and what’s going down, in this sleek psychological puzzler.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2013

No matter how normal that is for me, I can’t get myself to stop shaking ’cause I can be alert as all hell right now and it won’t change what’s going down mad soon.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera