Synonym: natural event, occurrence, occurrent. Similar words: happen, happen to, happenstance, opening, evening, appealing, screening, good evening. Meaning: ['hæpnɪŋ] 
n. an event that happens. adj. taking place.
n. an event that happens. adj. taking place. 
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211, What is actually happening is that the United States is being isolated, which is not the same thing.
212, I've always had a rather ambivalent attitude towards something happening to my father, and it persists.
213, Before I could grasp what was happening, I had bounced off the wall and was crumpling on to the floor in pain.
214, The Federals in the ranks were not altogether clear as to what was happening.
215, Things will happen. You can't stop them from happening(sentencedict.com), but you can control your reaction from making things worse. React positively. Live happily. RVM 
216, Far from the BSE scourge easing, exactly the contrary is happening.
217, You turned it on but nothing is happening - blank screen, no whirring noise, no beeps, no flashing lights.
218, When this exploded, fortunately not fiercely enough to breach the wall of the vessel, the operators realized what was happening.
219, You can't go into the classroom and forget about what's happening to you.
220, In many cases, such thinking has no bearing on what is happening in the regions.
221, The servants had realized what was happening, and brought ladders to climb up on to the roof.
222, We hope the trend continues, until such aural excursions become a regular happening rather than a rare treat.
223, Now here is a happening that illustrates my meaning: I believe it was in Rostov that I saw my first corpses.
More similar words: happen, happen to, happenstance, opening, evening, appealing, screening, good evening, happy, penis, appear, appeal, happily, appeal to, penitent, disappear, penitence, apperception, happy-go-lucky, dining, burning, warning, cunning, raining, morning, training, planning, earnings, spending, remaining.