Thesaurus results for GOING ON

going on

verb

Definition of going on

present participle of go on

as in happening

to take place what in the world is going on in there?

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as in rambling

to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains

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Recent Examples of going on About 4,400 workers are prohibited from going on strike because they are deemed essential to public health and safety. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026 And the other film is about a Jordanian farmer and the water loss in Jordan, because there’s a whole political situation going on with water being stolen by Israel. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026 There’s a lot of interesting work going on at Abundantia right now. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026 Both shows sold out within 10 minutes of going on sale three weeks ago. — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026 There was a lot going on during the national anthem prior to the Monday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles , and the strangest part was how Caleb Williams handled the moment. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026 The Craft of Living is mostly a set of literary notes, like Leopardi’s Zibaldone, with almost no mention of the history going on all around him. — Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026 Three years later, there’s some kind of activity going on inside Vine Street Brewing’s 150-year-old building almost every day of the week, from running club meet-ups to card game nights. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026 There is a heft to it, telling you there is something important going on. — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for going on

Verb

Why young drinkers are swapping bars for saunas The shift is happening alongside a broader pullback from alcohol.

— Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
Rob and Ian must have gone home wondering what on earth was happening.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of happening

Verb

The tight hiding places of Kaitlyn Dever’s rambling house seem almost roomy compared with being stuck in the slimy gut of a sperm whale.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
Another user experienced the issue on their Echo Show smart display but was able to stop the assistant from rambling by asking a random question.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of rambling

Verb

Black’s wife, who had summoned Bell, was concerned that her husband was coming down with a cold.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
There is a lot of money in the market, but some of it appears to be receding and the number of commissions is coming down.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of coming down

Verb

The production is a rattling junk drawer of circuit-bent thrift-store keyboards, dusty drum machines, and unintuitive loops, and KTO combines them into head-scratching, shouldn’t-work grooves.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
The trunk-rattling track oozes bold proclamations about bag chasing, love at first sight, and cruising past his adversaries.

— Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of rattling

Verb

Top Commanders wideout Terry McLaurin had to be carted off the field in the first half with an apparent left knee injury after going down without contact.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
The sun going down over Coleman Pond, which sits at the back of Katz’s Lincolnville property.

— Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of going down

Verb

The exception appears to be Edge running on Windows 10, which at the time this article went live was still connecting to 12 vulnerable hosts.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026
Blanco also created a Discord server, where users willing to try out the mod have been sharing screenshots of DLSS 5 running on their AMD GPUs.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of running on

Verb

So even after a summer in which Miami acquired a two-time MVP (Giannis Antetokounmpo) and another future Hall of Famer (Klay Thompson), the questions keep coming about which player the Heat can now add to put it over the top.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2026
But to answer your question, yes, there is stuff coming about the other silos.

— Hunter Ingram, Variety, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of coming about

Verb

And if things weren’t already bad enough for Los Angeles, facing Andy Reid coming off a bye is about the last thing any team wants.

— Andy Scholes, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
Tennessee is coming off a 26-3 home loss to what was a winless Houston Texans team that managed to sack Ward four times.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026