I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
strange
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A number of other Ulster callers also rang the show that night with amazing stories of strange happenings during Geller's appearance.
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Because of the strange happenings since she had arrived, Jenna had almost forgotten her original reason for this trip.
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Or was she behaving again like she had after the strange happenings on Monument Hill?
unusual
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By the following morning she had recovered to some extent from the unusual happenings in her normally well ordered life.
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This was not an unusual happening , and the executions were carried out without further trouble.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
there is no question of sth happening/sb doing sth
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Each has much to offer to the other and there is no question of one tradition being right and the other wrong.
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Even if the practice overspends its funds, there is no question of patients not getting the treatment they need.
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Since there is no means of changing the weather, there is no question of protest.
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This again suggests that the boys may have been in the wrong, which there is no question of in Ballantyne.
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This particularly applies where there is no question of a divorced previous spouse.
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This phenomenon is distinct from onomatopoeia - it is sometimes called sound symbolism: there is no question of auditory resemblance.
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Yet there is no question of one's hair rising.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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'The X Files' is a fictional television programme about strange, unexplained happenings.
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The happenings of the last two days had left me feeling dazed.
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The paper has a listing of the day's happenings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She could not believe that Pat was ready to go off now, at this thrilling moment when fabulous happenings seemed imminent.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a happening club
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In four to five years, this will be a happening film festival.
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The town's OK, but not what you'd call a happening place.