Happening and Odds

Happening

Happening noun - An exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand.

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Odds and happening are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Odds" instead a noun "Happening".

Nearby Words: happen, happened

Odds noun - A measure of how often an event will occur instead of another.

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Happening and odds are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Happening" instead a noun "Odds".

good	good happening	good odds
specific	specific happening	specific odds
little	little happening	little odds
bad	bad happening	bad odds
Other adjectives: terrible, weird, insane, worse.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy parodies this with the Heart of Gold that's essentially powered by extremely slim odds of something happening.

Source: Never Tell Me the Odds
Eddie, the ship's computer, calculated the odds of the above actually happening to be one in two to the power of infinity minus one.

Source: Contrived Coincidence
The Ellimist Chronicles establishes that while the odds against the Ellimist's ascension were tremendous, the odds of it happening a second time, to Crayak, were very good.

Source: Probability Pileup

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