Arrival
Arrival noun - The act of coming upon a scene.
Usage example: the groom blamed his belated arrival for the wedding on a huge traffic snarl
Passing
Passing noun - The permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- He's so notorious for causing destruction that, in one instance, simply passing near a town causes economic collapse and a massive riot when the news of his arrival circulates.
Source: The Fool / Comic Books - Despite 2 millennia passing since their arrival, Roum and Cartha remain enemies.
Source: Literature / The Lost Regiment -
It's particularly muddled in the first half of the first book, where Mike, Eileen, and Polly are all the same distance in time from leaving Oxford but because of their different arrival dates are therefore passing through the events of 1940 at different points in the story.
Source: Literature / Blackout
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