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 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 As the match went on, realising that his team had the upper hand in possession, Solbakken introduced technical wingers from the bench in Oscar Bobb and Andreas Schjelderup to better dictate the flow of play. — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 11 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 The Portuguese government went on to enact a range of measures to prevent and contain wildfires. — ABC News, 10 July 2026 Wegner-Bscher went on to race the car throughout Europe, including historics events at Spa, Vallelunga, and the Nürburgring. — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 10 July 2026 After leaving prison in 2009, Kidan began working at a staffing agency, went on to found a staffing business, Chartwell Staffing Solutions, and now serves as president of Empire Workforce Solutions, the White House said. — Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026 Trump went on to describe how the project would feature a luxe hotel managed by Aman Resorts and a food and beverage program from Manhattan staple Carbone. — Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for went on

Verb

What happened in Atlanta was so traumatic that, even three days on, its effects are still being felt.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 19 July 2026
But that’s all happened in spite of the politicians, certainly not because of them.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 18 July 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

Unsurprisingly, there was a strong Premier League presence among the leading clubs represented, but Crystal Palace and Sunderland will be particularly happy with their players’ exploits.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 21 July 2026
There was something so sinister about FIFA pushing the idea of diversity while bending the knee to a government working to discard the real thing.

— Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026

Definition of was

Verb

Those calls came about an hour after several calls reporting loud music and a large gathering of vehicles.

— Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 20 July 2026
The longtime friends told the publication that their collaboration for the different wedding attire came about during a casual dinner.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 July 2026

Definition of came about

Verb

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
Platner ran on a progressive platform centered on affordability, universal health care and getting corporate money and influence out of politics.

— Saige Miller, NPR, 10 July 2026

Definition of ran on

Verb

Four days into the seven-day cruise, my wife came down with Type A flu and was quarantined in our small, windowless cabin.

— Josh Rivera, USA Today, 19 July 2026
During production, O’Neil came down with a mild case of dengue fever that kept him at their hotel for some days.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 10 July 2026

Definition of came down

Verb

When the voting went down, every savvy person in the motion picture industry had certainly seen it.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 18 July 2026
The bulk of the campus had been quickly converted after its previous occupant went down in the fallout from the dot-com bust.

— Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026