Thesaurus results for INCIDENTS

incidents

noun

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plural of incident

as in events

something that happens the odd little incident was reported in the local paper

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as in accompaniments

something that is found along with something else a teen discovering that taxes are the inevitable and evil incident of a paying job

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Recent Examples of incidents In one of the incidents, the suspects displayed a black handgun, police said. —

Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026 Months after federal immigration agents shot and killed two people and wounded a third in separate incidents during the ICE surge in Minneapolis, the status of the federal investigations into the three shootings remains an open question. —

Meg Anderson, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026 Aviation safety expert Steve Arroyo, who was a longtime United Airlines pilot, said these kind of incidents happen daily on taxiways across the country, but don't normally get any attention because the collision is avoided. —

ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026 Local reports suggest the incidents have picked up again in recent weeks. —

Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026 According to the Israeli human rights NGO Yesh Din, there were 305 incidents of settler violence between February 28 and March 29, with an average of over 10 incidents a day including assaults, property damage, and land takeovers. —

Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026 There are currently no traffic incidents reported in this area. —

Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026 The incidents mark a significant blow for Washington as the war enters its sixth week with energy prices risingand little sign of an end to the conflict. —

Arsalan Shahla, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026 Even in a relatively safer city, when serious incidents occur, the system can still struggle with transparency and accountability. —

Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2026

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Hart will, however, address the pair of 20-point comebacks the Knicks pulled off en route to the conference finals for the first time in a quarter-century, a sequence of bizarre events many called a fluke.

— Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
According to Fox 11, LA28 currently states that 30% of its remaining tickets are under $200, but many potential ticket buyers have reported that larger events—including the opening and closing ceremonies — only have premium seats available, which often cost upwards of $5,000.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026