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going on
Also, going on for. Approaching, especially an age or time. For example, She's twelve, going on thirteen, or It's going on for midnight. The first term dates from the late 1500s, the variant from the mid-1800s. Also see go on.
Example Sentences
Ms Oliver said the inquiry was "an important step on the journey to change" and that Baroness Casey's report would "lift the lid on what has been going on".
By the time Josefina and her husband sat down to talk, the immigration raids had been going on for days, and protests over the federal actions had turned violent in parts of downtown Los Angeles.
But it seems there is more going on here than rounding up undocumented immigrants and terrorizing their families.
He said his dad had "leaned into me on the way out and said 'that's the biggest honour I've ever received' and I was quite taken aback because normally he wouldn't understand what's going on".
Yet even the team’s biggest fans found it hard to celebrate given what was going on just a dozen miles away, where hundreds of people protested in front of police, National Guard troops and U.S.
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