Thesaurus results for WENT ON

went on

verb

past tense of go on

as in happened

to take place what in the world is going on in there?

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as in rambled

to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains

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Recent Examples of went on On Thursday, health workers at the Nizi Treatment Center went on strike and the facility temporarily closed. — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026 After the study’s publication, Wakefield went on to recommend splitting the vaccines into single shots. — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026 Cam Ward struggled in three drives for Tennessee against San Francisco's backup defense and the Titans went on to beat the 49ers 19-13 in the exhibition opener for both teams Thursday night. — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026 His 2024 feature documentary Bosco Grande also premiered in the Giornate degli Autori in Venice and went on to win the Grand Prix at the National Competition at FIPADOC Biarritz. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026 Hubbard went on to run Kentucky’s Social Security disability system and its child-support-enforcement program, before leading its Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control. — Michelle Lhooq, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026 Sam Machado and his wife, Tammy Machado, who owned the property, and Tammy Machado’s sister, Reiko Matsumura, a former Yolo County sheriff’s deputy who went on leave after the explosion and retired in September. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026 Sure, the three looked better as the season went on but opposing offenses still continued to attack, something that will surely happen again if there’s no improvement. — Miami Herald, 25 July 2026 The film went on to earn 13 nominations at the Oscars and was considered a frontrunner for best picture. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for went on

Verb

The league cannot say with certainty whether the feat happened before 1901 due to a lack of game logs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
Nurses perform serial neurological examinations, manage drains and catheters, titrate pain medication, mobilize patients early, watch for the subtle signs of complication, and educate families who are still processing what just happened.

— Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of happened

Verb

Cars lined the streets looking for parking spots as people rambled through the bustling marketplace at Clock Tower Landing.

— Kendrick Calfee June 6, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2026
When asked simple questions by William Savitt, one of the attorneys representing OpenAI, Musk rambled and avoided the issue at hand.

— Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 18 May 2026

Definition of rambled

Verb

The banana theming came about more than a decade ago as a symbol of cultural unity and diversity across global communities, McDaniels said.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 15 Aug. 2026
When automobiles first came about, the island’s carriage drivers successfully resisted them.

— Hannah Agran, Midwest Living, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of came about

Verb

Paramount+ is also streaming all eight episodes of the first season, which ran on BET+ and BET previously, free on their YouTube channel.

— Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2026
The 2022 World Cup, the clearest expression of the strategy, ran on migrant labor whose reforms the International Labour Organization called real and whose enforcement Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said lagged.

— Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026

Definition of ran on

Verb

For her mother, Pya Glen, the appeal came down largely to practical considerations.

— Anna Esaki-Smith, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Somewhat in tandem, Alan Jackson served as Reiner’s main defense lawyer when the two first-degree murder charges first came down late last year.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026