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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to happening:   (203 results)

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., abruptness, active, active voice, affected role, after, afterward, afterwards, all of a sudden, announcement, avert, avoid, avoidance, benefactive role, beneficiary, benthal, benthic, benthonic, black eye, block, blow, bonanza, boom, bunce, burst, cause, coincidence, coincidentally, coincidently, concurrence, conjunction, co-occurrence, daily, datable, daytime, debar, deflect, diastolic, dodging, episode, external, extrasystolic, fend off, flare-up, fluvial, forbid, foreclose, forestall, fortuitousness, godsend, gold rush, gravy, grounds, halt, hap, happen, head off, in progressp, internal, kibosh, later, later on, manna from heaven, meridian, nightly, nighttime, nowadays, obviate, of a sudden, one-off, ongoing, outburst, out-of-town, overnight, patient, patient role, pelting, periodic, periodical, planning, possibility, possible, possibleness, postoperative, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, preclude, preoperative, preparation, present, presenta, prevent, promulgation, provision, pull the plug, rain, reason, recipient, recipient role, recurrence, return, reversal, reverse, seasonable, self-generated, series, setback, shunning, simultaneity, simultaneousness, sit back, sit by, spontaneous, stave off, stop, subsequently, sudden, suddenly, suddenness, timely, turning away, unexpected, unforeseen, ward off, well-timeda, well timedp, windfall

More specific:
abrupt change, accident, accompaniment, alteration, appearance, avalanche, beginning, blow, bonanza, boom, break, burst, case, chance event, change, collapse, conclusion, concomitant, contact, contingency, convergence, co-occurrence, crash, destiny, disappearance, discharge, ending, episode, eventuality, example, experience, failure, fate, fire, flare-up, flash, fortuity, goldmine, impinging, incident, instance, interruption, juncture, manna from heaven, marvel, miracle, modification, motion, movement, news event, occasion, outbreak, outburst, periodic event, recurrent event, reversal, reverse, setback, sound, striking, success, thing, trouble, union, wonder

More general:
event

Often used in the same context:
event, happen, happenin, happenings, happens, happining

Synonyms:
natural event, occurrence, on



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