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

That, however, never happened and an attorney eventually petitioned for his release. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026

His death happened two weeks after his release tour for High, Lonesome and Then Some was canceled following Snider’s involvement in a still-unclear incident in Salt Lake City that landed him in a hospital and in jail. — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 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

Midway through his own undergrad career at BYU, Smith left school to join his father, who’d happened upon a startup concept involving a way to make sophisticated research more user friendly. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

My research and writing happened right before things started to build back up again with interest. — Rachel Cohen Booth, Vox, 23 Oct. 2026

Many, many things have happened since then, some very positive, some tragic. — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026

Which brings us to Louisiana, where none of that really happened in Friday's game between University Lab and Collegiate. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026