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Recent Examples of goings-on
Did the upstairs house potentially illicit goings-on?
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for goings-on
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He is also named in multiple ongoing medical malpractice lawsuits, with hundreds of former patients signing a class action complaint in 2024.—
Brittany Miller,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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What looked like late-game coaching malpractice on television was, in fact, a messier Knicks failure than that.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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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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According to Becerra, actually, Democrats have done wonders for Californians with only a few minor indiscretions.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
9 Apr. 2026
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In this case, the arc of the season was primed for Batula to be the victim rising from the ashes of her divorce, only for her recent romantic indiscretions to shatter that fantasy.—
Shamira Ibrahim,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Apr. 2026
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Most of the long montage took issue with what the band presented as America’s historic misdeeds, from the era of slavery up through America’s missile strikes in Iran.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
19 Apr. 2026
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Reporting on misdeeds of an intimate nature can be especially difficult and complex.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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TigerTiger’s profile is soon revealed to have been created by Clark, presumably for the purpose of catfishing Floyd; when detectives find security-camera footage of Clark pedalling away from the scene of the crime in his distinctive recumbent bicycle, he is arrested and charged with the murder.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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There is something wrong with our legal system if cutting prices is a crime.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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And yet, there’s an undeniable charm to that familiarity.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
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This seeming craze for doing plays that others have already done in other ways can provide familiarity and a shared vocabulary, a framework for fuller appreciation of the work at hand.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2026
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Former State’s Attorney Kim Foxx previously followed suit and recused her office, citing an appearance of impropriety because her prosecutors appeared before Brosnahan every day.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr. 2026
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An attorney for Eastman had countered that his client wasn't trying to steal the election but was considering ways to delay electoral vote counting so states could investigate allegations of voting improprieties.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Goings-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goings-on. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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