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goings-on pl (plural only)

  1. Occurrences; things that go on, occur, or happen; events; activities.

    She sent a long letter detailing all the recent goings-on in her life.

    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:

      Enkidu is appalled at such goings-on and rises immediately to go to Uruk.

    • 1996 July, Bruce Sterling, “Is Phoenix Burning”, in Wired‎[1], →ISSN:

      Phoenix's finest watch the goings-on with jaws agape. Machines on thick metal legs with big jangling teeth.

    • 2021 January 29, John Herrman, “Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, in The New York Times‎[2]:

      The_Donald wasn’t a place to debate the presidential election, or discuss the latest goings-on with their preferred candidate. “What I’m interested in is letting Donald Trump supporters speak among themselves,” a moderator of the subreddit told me in early 2016.