Eventuality
Nouns
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eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact
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matter of fact
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naked fact, bare facts, just the facts
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phenomenon
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advent. business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding
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circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence
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opportunity (occasion) Continuance in action. the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general
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things in general, affairs in general
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the times, state of affairs, order of the day
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course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events
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ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life
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chapter of accidents etc. (chance) [Absence of assignable cause.] Chance
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situation etc. (circumstances) Circumstance.
Verbs
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happen, occur
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take place, take effect
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come, become of
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come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on
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pass, present itself
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fall
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fall out, turn out
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run, be on foot, fall in
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befall, betide, bechance
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prove, eventuate, draw on
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turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up
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supervene, survene
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issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course
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pass off etc. (be past) [Retrospective time.] The Past. meet with
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experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to
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fall to the lot of
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be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot
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find
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endure etc. (feel) Feeling.
Adjectives
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happening etc. v.
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going on, doing, current
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in the wind, in the air, afloat
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on foot, afoot, on the tapis
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at issue, in question
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incidental. eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident
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memorable, momentous, signal.
Adverbs
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eventually
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in the event of, in case, just in case
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in the course of things
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as things, times go
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as the world goes, wags
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as the tree falls, cat jumps
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as it may turn out, happen.
Phrases
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that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles
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you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring
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the plot thickens
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so runs round of life from hour to hour" [Keble]