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Recent Examples of goings-on
The board oversees the La Jolla Recreation Center’s programs and activities, applies for grants to fund repairs or improvements, receives reports from city of San Diego staff about goings-on at the Rec Center and more.
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
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.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Sep. 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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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
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.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Sep. 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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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
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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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Once there, however, Rhoda discovers more than Max’s indiscretions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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But Clinton’s ties to the Epstein case are a reminder of how his political promise has always been tempered by personal indiscretions.—
Steven Sloan,
Fortune,
21 Dec. 2025
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Democrats and Republicans seek to punish misdeeds by the other side but rationalize them for their own.—
Brandon Rottinghaus,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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But decrying China’s misdeeds surely looked like an opportunity—a self-positioning macroplay.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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The charges Dasjanae Teyona Timmons, a 23-year-old with a Jessup address, and Dahmira Monya Laboo, another 23-year-old with a Severn address, were identified as suspects in the crime.—
Andrew Adeolu,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
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Tyrone Williams faces 10 charges in Roxbury District Court, including multiple assault and firearms charges, compounded by having a previous violent crime or drug crime conviction.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
10 Jan. 2026
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Where the image of Hussein communicated consequence through visual degradation, the image of Maduro diffuses consequence through familiarity, structuring interpretation not through rupture, but through normalization.—
Debbie Millman,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
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The veteran correspondent and author volunteered to go the chaotic scene because of his personal connection and familiarity with the area.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
7 Jan. 2026
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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 12 Jan. 2026.
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