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 On Thursday, health workers at the Nizi Treatment Center went on strike and the facility temporarily closed. — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026 After the study’s publication, Wakefield went on to recommend splitting the vaccines into single shots. — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026 Cam Ward struggled in three drives for Tennessee against San Francisco's backup defense and the Titans went on to beat the 49ers 19-13 in the exhibition opener for both teams Thursday night. — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026 His 2024 feature documentary Bosco Grande also premiered in the Giornate degli Autori in Venice and went on to win the Grand Prix at the National Competition at FIPADOC Biarritz. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026 Hubbard went on to run Kentucky’s Social Security disability system and its child-support-enforcement program, before leading its Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control. — Michelle Lhooq, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for went on

Verb

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

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

On the flip side, when there was a flood in the lobby, one creator, who happened to be there, posted on social media.

— Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Despite Villa reaching their zenith under Emery in May, there was a growing argument to undergo a stable transitional phase, providing youthful impetus and appearing proactive, rather than reactive, in lowering the age of the squad.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of was

Verb

At his news conference last week, Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh rattled markets by being unnecessarily opaque.

— Anil Kashyap, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2026
The skies of Oklahoma City roared for six months in 1964 as military aircraft intentionally rattled the population below with a daily barrage of thunderous sonic booms.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of rattled

Verb

Lê Shackelford said the store’s busiest day came about a week after the World Cup had left town — suggesting that the market’s best days would come after the influx of visitors to the city.

— Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 4 Aug. 2026
Robbins told Variety that this collaboration came about after Francesca showed her dad one of his sketches.

— Jack Dunn, Variety, 4 Aug. 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

In Andersonville, a large tree limb snapped along Catalpa Avenue near Clark Street, and came down onto several cars.

— Darius Johnson, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Records show that, when the Berlin Wall came down in late 1989, Becker sold the car to German enthusiast Peter Schmitz, who kept the car until Dutch dealer Jan Bruijn persuaded him to sell it in 1995.

— Howard Walker, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of came down

Verb

Quinn declined, however, to move Coleman earlier in camp when starting center Nick Allegretti went down with a calf injury, opting instead to use Julian Good-Jones and let Coleman focus on left guard.

— Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
The economy lost 23,000 jobs last month, yet the unemployment rate went down as the workforce shrank.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026