comings and goings
noun
: the activity of people arriving at and leaving a place
He sat in the café watching the comings and goings of the customers.
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Yet, as Ukrainian citizens learn to coexist with the destruction that plagues their quotidian comings and goings, the resilience of the country’s artists couldn’t be more thunderous.
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Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
August in New York can often feel like a month of limbo with all the comings and goings, out-of-office replies, and galleries closed for installations.
—Morgan Meier, Curbed, 9 Aug. 2024
The General Hospital cast has experienced quite a few significant comings and goings in the past few months, beginning in April with TVLine’s exclusive report that Nicholas Alexander Chavez wasn’t returning to the role of Spencer.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
Instead, filmmaker Valerio Mastandrea imagines a very present-tense purgatory, following the comings and goings and general doldrums of a group of coma patients caught between life and death.
—Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
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Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
August in New York can often feel like a month of limbo with all the comings and goings, out-of-office replies, and galleries closed for installations.
—Morgan Meier, Curbed, 9 Aug. 2024
The General Hospital cast has experienced quite a few significant comings and goings in the past few months, beginning in April with TVLine’s exclusive report that Nicholas Alexander Chavez wasn’t returning to the role of Spencer.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
Instead, filmmaker Valerio Mastandrea imagines a very present-tense purgatory, following the comings and goings and general doldrums of a group of coma patients caught between life and death.
—Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
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“Comings and goings.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comings%20and%20goings. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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