GOINGS Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

goings

noun

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plural of going

as in processes

forward movement in time or place tried to get down the hill quickly, but it was slow going with an injured foot

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as in departures

the act of leaving a place was so absorbed in her TV show she didn't notice his comings or goings

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Recent Examples of goings At the center of it all is Melissa Kössler, who in the early goings of the 2026 NWSL season is emerging as one of the league’s most dangerous strikers. —

Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2026 When the Stars weren’t scoring much at five-on-five in the early goings of the season, Robertson picked up the pace. —

Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026 Our Jacob Camenker will be following the goings on with the UFL closely. —

Jim Reineking, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026 The Spurs are not expected to be major players for the biggest name still (possibly) on the market — Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, who remains an undetermined level of disgruntled with the goings on around the Bucks. —

Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2026 Along with fifty-two books, Hahn wrote more than two hundred articles for The New Yorker, over eight decades, about goings on in places as unalike as Rajasthan, Dar es Salaam, Hong Kong, and Rio de Janeiro. —

Ariel Levy, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025 Sit at one of the individual tables in the main dining room to watch the goings on in the open kitchen, or book the new chef’s counter experience (available for both lunch and dinner). —

Aoife O'Riordain, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2025 Much to the frustration of sleuthing fans, Sherman-Palladino has continued to defend the miniseries’ ending, saying her concern wasn’t with the goings on of any of the aforementioned men. —

Claire Franken, TVLine, 6 Oct. 2025 But off camera, incarcerated men whisper about terrible goings on being kept secret from the public, sparking a six-year investigation behind the walls of the nation’s deadliest prison system. —

Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025

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Noun

The cards are designed to interrupt the rational mind, and to introduce productive chaos into processes that may feel rigid.

— Jennifer Sodini, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
Last month, the FIFA Council approved its first comprehensive safeguarding policy, a summary of processes, standards and reporting mechanisms.

— Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026