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Recent Examples of goings-on
The network is about to take the NBC out of MSNBC by renaming itself MS NOW, focusing on news, opinion and goings-on around the world.
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Located on the hotel’s 22nd floor and lined with floor-to-ceiling windows and chic plantscaping, the pool is a serene retreat, offering a 360-degree perch for guests to observe the goings-on below.
—Kenne Dibner, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2025
Inca bureaucrats recorded all the goings-on in their bustling empire using knotted cords called khipu, where the position and order of the knots represented numbers.
—ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
The native New Yorker’s involvement with her father’s second administration (even in an entertainment capacity) is somewhat surprising, given her prior stance on goings-on inside the Beltway.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Located on the hotel’s 22nd floor and lined with floor-to-ceiling windows and chic plantscaping, the pool is a serene retreat, offering a 360-degree perch for guests to observe the goings-on below.
—Kenne Dibner, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2025
Inca bureaucrats recorded all the goings-on in their bustling empire using knotted cords called khipu, where the position and order of the knots represented numbers.
—ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
The native New Yorker’s involvement with her father’s second administration (even in an entertainment capacity) is somewhat surprising, given her prior stance on goings-on inside the Beltway.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for goings-on
Noun
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Current law already requires PAs to have malpractice liability insurance.—
Jessie Opoien,
jsonline.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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The prosecution has accused Khan of keeping the Bulgari set and 107 other state gifts through similar malpractices.—
Rafia Zakaria,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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And Floria most certainly doesn’t indulge in any of the hanky-panky in elevators and storerooms of the kind that the randy staffers in Grey’s Anatomy wallow in.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
2 Aug. 2025
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But there was no hanky-panky, and in fact the two couples had dinner together every week for two years after Dirty Dancing wrapped.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2024
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Here’s where the show does have some awareness about its characters’ problematic indiscretions, and Carrington pushes back to point out that a relationship with a trans woman isn’t anything to be ashamed of.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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Navratilova’s practiced that forgiveness, even now as Lemigova finds herself amid a sea of public scrutiny for exposing her indiscretion on the reunion stage.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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Doing so might cost the officer who Kyle shot to expose the many misdeeds of the Kingstown Police Department, if Mike can’t effectively get State Attorney, and former lover, Evelyn Foley (Necar Zadegan) to drop the charges against his brother.—
Demetrius Patterson,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
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While audits and other actions by state officials are important to protect the interests of taxpayers, rarely do misdeeds or incompetence result in any consequences.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
25 Oct. 2025
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The crimes with which she has been charged are trumped up and her arrest is a cynical ploy by the junta headed by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing to cling onto power.—
Kim Aris,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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Rafael is a crime and breaking news reporter at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Nov. 2025
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This is where we are collectively called to look at where familiarity and longing are actually a form of confinement.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
11 Nov. 2025
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Waterman is frustrated by the situation at Southland Center, noting the impact the bus stop closure would have on students who rely on their familiarity with specific landmarks to chart their way and for how mall management has reacted to outreach from him and others.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
Freep.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Korf and Laber deny the allegations of impropriety and maintain that their investments helped local economies.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Trump is set to host leaders of the world’s leading rich and developing economies at next year’s Group of 20 summit at his golf club at the nearby city of Doral, despite what critics say is the appearance of impropriety.—
Seung Min Kim,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Goings-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goings-on. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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