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Answer for the clue "Come to pass ", 9 letters:
happening

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Word definitions for happening in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A happening is a performance, event, or situation meant to be considered art , usually as performance art .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
happening \happening\ n. something that happens; an occurrence; an event. Syn: occurrence, natural event. Specifically: An event that is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or important. An artistic or entertainment event that is unconventional, sometimes ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "chance, luck," from present participle of happen ; meaning "occurrence" is 1550s. Sense of "spontaneous event or display" is from 1959 in the argot of artists. Happenings "events" was noted by Fowler as a vogue word from c.1905.

Usage examples of happening.

How could they expect the Acceptor to report specifically when so much was happening!

Lotus and Crazy had probably been achored before they had realized something was happening.

Meanwhile, Alsa was God knew where, and anything could be happening to her.

Two horses, a pair of riders, surrounded by the gang of aqueduct workers who had abandoned their evening meal to listen to what was happening.

Zarth Arn had never foreseen anything like this happening when he had planned the exchange of bodies!

A surgeon happening luckily to be in the house, immediately attended, and applied himself to dressing his wounds, which I had the pleasure to hear were not likely to be mortal.

All the rest waits for the appearing of the king to hail him for himself, not a being of accident and happening but authentically king, authentically Principle, The Good authentically, not a being that acts in conformity with goodness--and so, recognisably, a secondary--but the total unity that he is, no moulding upon goodness but the very Good itself.

Only the twitching of the line told Beal what was happening until she saw the first person sweep past a fire burning on the walls.

I felt as if I should like to know Bottarelli, and begged Goudar to take me to him, and Martinelli, happening to call just then, said he would come with us.

Consequently, Stratico was always afraid of something happening to him, and he begged me to make myself his companion, and even to share his pleasures, so that he might not go into bad company and dangerous houses alone and undefended.

In the Oswiecim camp itself, Berel said, where one saw the chimneys flame out at night, and smelled the burning hair, meat, and fat, many inmates shunned the topic of the gassings, or even denied that they were happening.

Mary, happening to glance from a window, saw Bibbs coming, and she started, clasping her hands together in a sudden alarm.

Pacino tried to stay focused, but the way this blockade was happening was foreign to him.

While Tom walked to the side of the cart as Bonfire pulled it around the track, he was thinking about Jimmy and wondering what was happening at Bedford.

Janne will be there to see any discussions between Safar, Caid and Coron happening without me.