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 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 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for went on

Verb

The clip shows Jason standing before the box and reflecting on what happened in Season 1.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 July 2026
In a post on X, police called on everyone to leave the site of the event immediately once the attack happened, as ambulances and firefighters attended to the victims, according to a translation by Reuters news agency.

— Chandler Thornton, CNN Money, 25 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

With over 1,400 crew members, there was always a willing hand near-by with a greeting or offer of assistance.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
Growing up, there was always something special about going to grandma’s house that made any regular day feel so much more fun, especially during summertime when days are long and the kids are, well, bored.

— Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 July 2026

Definition of was

Verb

Bandito almost rolled up Kyle Fletcher for an early win, and this rattled Fletcher—who suffered his first pinfall of the year against Bandito earlier this year.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Trump has been pressing allies to spend more on defense and join the conflict in Iran while at the same time threatening to seize by force Greenland from NATO-member Denmark, a move that rattled Europeans and the alliance.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026

Definition of rattled

Verb

Productivity topics came about through discussions on implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in operations.

— Alex Krutz, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
The conversation regarding Lamar came about after Arnett revealed that Mumford was a fan of their podcast, even attending a live show in Los Angeles.

— Shelby Stivale, Entertainment Weekly, 27 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

The beginning of the company’s pivot to becoming a consumer-facing brand began in the mid-80s, and came down, once again, to Stern’s forward-thinking philosophy.

— Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 27 July 2026
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

Definition of came down

Verb

Scourton went down during team drills while rushing from the right edge against Bryce Young and the first-team offense.

— Joseph Person, New York Times, 23 July 2026
When the voting went down, every savvy person in the motion picture industry had certainly seen it.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 18 July 2026