course of events
noun phrase
: the things that have happened, that are happening, or that will happen
It's difficult to predict the course of events.
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These individuals may easily end up negotiating deals or directing the course of events while escaping both congressional oversight and public scrutiny.
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Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2025
That turmoil in Latin America shaped this course of events, even if indirectly, challenges the assumption that Latin America is too peripheral, too insular, and too small in population terms to exert much influence in world events.
—Will Freeman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2024
But a hug—or a small kindness of any kind—might have gone a long way in changing the course of events.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
Content by this author: Current Monetary Issues An able analytical study of the whole question and of the course of events since the London Conference, with special reference to the new departures in this country.
—Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024
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Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2025
That turmoil in Latin America shaped this course of events, even if indirectly, challenges the assumption that Latin America is too peripheral, too insular, and too small in population terms to exert much influence in world events.
—Will Freeman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2024
But a hug—or a small kindness of any kind—might have gone a long way in changing the course of events.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
Content by this author: Current Monetary Issues An able analytical study of the whole question and of the course of events since the London Conference, with special reference to the new departures in this country.
—Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Course of events.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/course%20of%20events. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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