Synonyms of happened

happened

verb

past tense of happen

as in occurred

to take place

did anything exciting happen over the summer?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• occurred
• came
• was
• did
• transpired
• passed
• befell
• came down
• happed
• cooked
• came about
• chanced
• came to pass
• proceeded
• went on
• went down
• materialized
• came off
• arose
• resulted
• betided
• developed
• intervened
• followed
• shaped (up)
• broke
• rose
• came up
• cropped (up)
• sprang (up)
• fell out
• turned out
• went off

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of happened

If Boise State’s offense got rolling, there would likely be no stopping it — and that’s exactly what happened. — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 8 Nov. 2026

They were told that the plane was blown over by wind, and that the aircraft was parked in its stall when the incident happened. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026

The collision happened a little more than a half-mile from Skydive Elsinore. — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 7 Nov. 2026

Jeffery Simmons is to the Bears defense what Connor Hellebuyck has been to the Devils and that’s not necessarily an overreaction to what happened in Seattle Monday night. — Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2026

This all happened after years in which the President and the Vice-President have deployed racist epithets, jokes, and myths. — David Remnick, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026

Autonomous driving technology has come a long way since then, but the road trips never happened. — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2026

This happened despite the fact that calculations of orbital forcings, together with modeling of how carbon dioxide interferes with glacial inception, have suggested the next ice age was postponed by tens of thousands of years. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026

Friday's attack happened as people had gathered for a funeral. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026