happening
something that happens; occurrence; event.
an unconventional dramatic or artistically orchestrated performance, often a series of discontinuous events involving audience participation.
any event considered worthwhile, unusual, or interesting.
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How to use happening in a sentence
The same way scientists can potentially identify natural agents to explain “the devil’s magic,” known geologic phenomena may influence seemingly ghostly happenings.
There was a whole commission that had been created because they were anticipating something like this happening.
We provide an original analysis of the latest happenings in the social media industry.
Top 15 Chrome extensions for social media marketers | Bhavik Soni | September 23, 2020 | Search Engine WatchIn a summer with few such happenings, it was an opportunity for people to have fun and raise some money for good causes.
That splashy Chainsmokers concert in the Hamptons raised all of $152,000 for charity | radmarya | August 25, 2020 | FortuneBhavik Soni is a Creative Writer at Auto Monkey where he provides an original analysis of the latest happenings in the social media industry.
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In this war, the targeting is often happening on computer monitors thousands of miles away, capturing images from drones.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War | Nancy A. Youssef | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd that may well be what is happening in the Barnett Shale region around, yes, Dallas and Irving.
26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking’s Smoking Gun Is in Texas | James Joiner | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTMake no mistake: The technology exists—has existed for a long while—to stop this from happening.
Red Tape and Black Boxes: Why We Keep ‘Losing’ Airliners in 2014 | Clive Irving | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“When Tanveer realized what was happening, he jumped out of the truck, but the Iranians shot him,” Abdullah says.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan | Umar Farooq | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJust being able to be in the loop when something is happening, it just works.
Anastasia Ashley, Surfer-Cum-Model, Rides The Viral Internet Wave | James Joiner | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis will often save the foliage from drying up, a happening which makes the plants rather unsightly.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinI want to see the sort of thing happening to schools that has already happened to many sorts of retail shops.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) Wellshappening to cast his eyes that way, he saw a light where he had never seen one before—in the little unused chapel.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry Woodhappening to walk down the Rue Saint Honoré, he had come upon tragedy.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeAn estate upon condition is one which depends upon the happening or not happening of some uncertain event.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
British Dictionary definitions for happening
/ (ˈhæpənɪŋ, ˈhæpnɪŋ) /
an occurrence; event
an improvised or spontaneous display or performance consisting of bizarre and haphazard events
informal fashionable and up-to-the-minute
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