Thesaurus results for WENT ON

went on

verb

past tense of go on

as in happened

to take place what in the world is going on in there?

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as in rambled

to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains

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Recent Examples of went on After a severe overnight storm prior to the event, however, the Premier Access viewing area was canceled, organizers said, even though much of the Sail4th 250 celebration went on elsewhere. — Mahsa Saeidi, CBS News, 31 July 2026 Sam Machado and his wife, Tammy Machado, who owned the property, and Tammy Machado’s sister, Reiko Matsumura, a former Yolo County sheriff’s deputy who went on leave after the explosion and retired in September. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026 Sure, the three looked better as the season went on but opposing offenses still continued to attack, something that will surely happen again if there’s no improvement. — Miami Herald, 25 July 2026 The film went on to earn 13 nominations at the Oscars and was considered a frontrunner for best picture. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 July 2026 House of Hope world premiered at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in 2025, and then went on to screen at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto this May. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 July 2026 Truelove went on to call him out by name, then demanded to know Roker’s whereabouts. — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026 This tie-up went on to win Collaboration of the Year at the 2022 Footwear News Achievement Awards. — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 17 July 2026 It’s been one week since Nolan Wells and his friends went on a Fourth of July trip to Horn Island – an uninhabited stretch of pristine wilderness off the Mississippi coast with no shelters, no facilities and no communications. — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 11 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for went on

Verb

Then Digital Audio Workstations like Cubase happened and suddenly, the bedroom became the recording studio.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2026
The instructions did not forbid what happened, and the environments did not prevent it.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of happened

Verb

Cars lined the streets looking for parking spots as people rambled through the bustling marketplace at Clock Tower Landing.

— Kendrick Calfee June 6, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2026
When asked simple questions by William Savitt, one of the attorneys representing OpenAI, Musk rambled and avoided the issue at hand.

— Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 18 May 2026

Definition of rambled

Verb

There was a small bathroom with glass doors and a shower, a mini-bar, closet, desk, lounge chair and large doors that open onto the street.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
Two Plössl eyepieces provided different magnifications, and there was also a red-dot finderscope and a manual equatorial mount with slow-motion cables.

— Damian Peach, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of was

Verb

Ceuta, SpainAP — Ceuta over the weekend no longer looked like a city on edge, but residents were still rattled by the events of the week.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
Tolle navigated a tricky Dodgers lineup with poise and didn’t get rattled in the second after giving up the lead on Hernández’s homer.

— Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of rattled

Verb

The three incidents came about in part because the models’ testing environments were supposed to be isolated from an internet connection, and were not.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 31 July 2026
Citing Zendaya’s dress, designed by Matières Fécales, the look came about in similar ways to his past work with Zendaya, with little outside inspiration needed.

— James Manso, Allure, 30 July 2026

Definition of came about

Verb

Paramount+ is also streaming all eight episodes of the first season, which ran on BET+ and BET previously, free on their YouTube channel.

— Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2026
The 2022 World Cup, the clearest expression of the strategy, ran on migrant labor whose reforms the International Labour Organization called real and whose enforcement Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said lagged.

— Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026

Definition of ran on

Verb

Atlanta went down to 10 men in the 27th minute when Enea Mihaj was shown a red card, but Miguel Almirón gave United the lead three minutes later.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
In addition to Pearsall and Kirk, running back Jordan James is out with a rib fracture, and safety Malik Mustapha went down with a hamstring strain.

— Matt Barrows, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026