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- noun Plural form of
ongoing .
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Examples
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"And if that's the case there would seem to have been some kind of ongoings near the window."
Simon 1907
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After surveying the "ongoings" from the safe point of a masthead, he came to the conclusion that the proceedings interested him no more, and with a dismal croak he flew off to the skeö, and, seating himself on the topmost point of its ruinous gable, commented in very uncomplimentary terms upon the ways of mankind.
Viking Boys Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby 1891
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I'd love to keep up with the ongoings of Boston being an Entertainment Business major at Full Sail University.
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All in all, shoring up the line of lower-profile ongoings seems like a better deal than banking on scattershot miniseries.
Six in one hand… | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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Further:The spectre of Greece being plunged into ungovernability -- as if the political shenanigans and ongoings in Athens do not already resemble a Moliere farce – will, it seems, save Papandreou's skin.
Greek PM Papandreou wins confidence vote - November 4 2011 2011
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This has been a story sort of a long time coming and one that we knew was going to happen based on all the information we heard last year with the ongoings of comic properties getting rebooted at Fox.
Fox Officially Rebooting Daredevil, David Scarpa to Scribe! 2010
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There are a lot of things that raised flags, sure — review text being changed per management, a video review that was pulled, an advertiser that changed its campaign, and an Editorial Director, an 11-year veteran of the site, fired amidst it all — but there was no concrete evidence of any shady ongoings.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - GameSpot’s State of Affairs 2008
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Now, Vertigo's latest ongoings are poised to join those legendary ranks with The Unwritten, American Vampire, Sweet Tooth and iZombie.
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Chelsea said, ignoring the ongoings in the washroom line.
authentic 2010
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All of this adds to recent speculation of increased posturing and counter-espionage ongoings between Israel and Hezbollah (along with the Lebanese intelligence services) involving the destruction of telecommunications towers in Southern Lebanon and the break-up of an Isreali spy ring earlier this year.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup 2009
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