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

The league cannot say with certainty whether the feat happened before 1901 due to a lack of game logs. — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026

Nurses perform serial neurological examinations, manage drains and catheters, titrate pain medication, mobilize patients early, watch for the subtle signs of complication, and educate families who are still processing what just happened. — Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

The shootings happened just before the start of the academic year at Virginia State. — Patrick Whittle, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026

Per the show’s co-creators Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack, though, that’s not what happened. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2026

The shootings, which happened near campus residence halls, remain under investigation. — John Woodrow Cox, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2026

The incident happened near Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty. — Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026

Here are some of the aspects of Tony that actually happened in Anthony Bourdain’s life and others that were dramatized. — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 8 Aug. 2026

Then Digital Audio Workstations like Cubase happened and suddenly, the bedroom became the recording studio. — New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2026