goings-on

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Recent Examples of goings-on Welcome to December and all of the holiday goings-on. Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 3 Dec. 2025 Dermot Corrigan spoke to people with knowledge of goings-on at the Bernabeu to ask how any change to the Madrid model is likely to look. Phil Hay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025 The board oversees the La Jolla Recreation Center’s programs and activities, applies for grants to fund repairs or improvements, receives reports from city of San Diego staff about goings-on at the Rec Center and more. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025 The network is about to take the NBC out of MSNBC by renaming itself MS NOW, focusing on news, opinion and goings-on around the world. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for goings-on
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Noun
  • In a landmark case, a New York jury has awarded a $2 million medical malpractice verdict to Varian who sued doctors for performing a double mastectomy on her at just 16 years old.
    Nicole Russell, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Georgia Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical after two separate medical malpractice cases resurfaced the question of whether the state can place a cap on money awarded by juries in wrongful death lawsuits.
    Jozsef Papp, AJC.com, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • So just to be critical or even open to suspicion of hanky-panky or shenanigans around vaccination is immediately shut down by The New York Times or anybody.
    David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
  • And Floria most certainly doesn’t indulge in any of the hanky-panky in elevators and storerooms of the kind that the randy staffers in Grey’s Anatomy wallow in.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Jack, a detective with the sheriff's department, is just trying to keep his indiscretions from being broadcast on the 6 o'clock news.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Shuler, whose play with Riverside helped him gain a scholarship to the University of New Orleans, broke down several times when describing Lorch’s use of a paddle to punish him for indiscretions ranging from not working hard in practice to struggling in a high school French class.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • When Attia and Epstein met in 2014, the full extent of the latter’s crimes weren’t yet publicly known, but his misdeeds weren’t a secret.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • His principal immigration and domestic-policy adviser, Stephen Miller, has not admitted any wrongdoing or misdeed.
    Michael Luo, New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Police officials at a news conference said the officers had collected personal and private information unlawfully and distributed it to organized crime figures, in some cases for bribes, and that mobsters then carried out shootings and other violent crimes.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Last week, the topic took center stage again when Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, posted a video accusing Armenian crime groups of carrying out widespread hospice fraud in Los Angeles.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • There are no frills or fancy touches, but a sense of familiarity and open-mindedness radiates throughout.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The familiarity was instantaneous.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The California Governor’s Office, in both cases, denied any impropriety.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But, whatever the ultimate outcome may be, whether in front of this Court or any other, someone, somewhere will allege impropriety in the result.
    Justin Williams, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026

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“Goings-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goings-on. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.

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