Synonyms of happens

happens

verb

present tense third-person singular of happen

as in occurs

to take place

did anything exciting happen over the summer?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• occurs
• is
• comes
• does
• passes
• transpires
• befalls
• comes down
• goes on
• chances
• comes about
• materializes
• comes off
• cooks
• goes down
• proceeds
• comes to pass
• haps
• arises
• rises
• betides
• develops
• follows
• results
• breaks
• intervenes
• shapes (up)
• springs (up)
• crops (up)
• comes up
• turns out
• falls out
• goes off

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of happens

The Technion team approached the problem by rethinking what happens on the other side of the electrolysis process. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

What happens next could impact thousands of residents, farmers, commercial interests and property owners. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

Now our phones are starting to look for what happens after the conversation begins. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026

What happens when an ancient and meaningful practice, often rooted in sacred texts, is affected by interaction with machines? — Shay Rabineau, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

But Barra knows that the idea will make some consumers uneasy—and GM, more than most companies, knows exactly what happens when customers don’t feel safe. — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

What happens next is conveyed almost entirely through flashbacks to dinners that weren’t interesting enough to become full scenes. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026

ICOs were the dominant crypto craze of the late 2010s, creating the capital that eventually went into decentralized finance (crypto’s version of what happens on Wall Street) and the booming NFT market. — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

What separates vendors is what happens after the agreement is signed. — Manjot Pal, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026