goings-on

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Recent Examples of goings-on Did the upstairs house potentially illicit goings-on? Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026 Vatu's goings-on mostly took a backseat in Episode 2, though Q still managed to find himself in a few funny situations. Jacob Wilt, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 4 Mar. 2026 Today may ask you to contact someone over neighborhood situations or investigate other local goings-on. Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026 That includes breaking stories, polls, the latest from Capitol Hill, the Supreme Court and the White House, and political goings-on from across the nation. Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for goings-on
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Noun
  • In court filings in each of these cases, Prospect, its hospitals and its doctors denied the allegations of malpractice, negligence or wrongful death.
    Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2026
  • States can then leave the regulation of talk therapy to other legal and professional mechanisms, such as malpractice or enforcement of professional ethics.
    Kevin Cope, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • So just to be critical or even open to suspicion of hanky-panky or shenanigans around vaccination is immediately shut down by The New York Times or anybody.
    David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The most successful and lucrative family vlogs are indiscreet almost by definition—and yet the wrong kind of indiscretion can derail the whole gravy train.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2026
  • An investigation into accusations of corporate indiscretion by Jeff Shell will make or break the future of the Paramount executive.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The paper’s new driving force, according to current and former staff who spoke to Semafor, is to expose local and state fraud and the misdeeds — real and perceived — of Democratic politicians who may have had a role in it.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • But the laundry list of specific misdeeds is staggering.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The ranger called crime-scene investigators to the location.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The storylines and analogies Brown uses vary in familiarity.
    Haley Sawyer, Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • It’s helped bring a sense of familiarity as spring practice kicked off this week.
    Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Vrabel denied any allegation of impropriety in a statement to Page Six.
    Doha Madani, NBC news, 8 Apr. 2026
  • When Bloomberg reported last December that Epstein was offered an opportunity to invest in a Donna Summer Broadway show that Mottola was producing, Joanne Oriti, a senior executive at Mottola’s company, dismissed any suggestion of impropriety.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026

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“Goings-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goings-on. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.

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