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happening

/ˈhæpɪnɪŋ/ noun A2
  1. Something that happens.
  2. A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation.

Plural happenings

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Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used to queer things happening.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 47 · B2
She had many visitors and not a day passed without one or more of the schoolgirls dropping in to bring her flowers and books and tell her all the happenings in the juvenile world of Avonlea.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 178 · C1
Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland--adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 242 · C1
Commencement was the next important happening.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 304 · C1

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