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  take place
      v 1: come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place
           off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed
           important" [syn: happen, hap, go on, pass off,
           occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place]

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "take place":
     be found, be met with, be realized, befall, betide, come,
     come about, come down, come off, come to pass, come true,
     eventuate, fall, go off, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off,
     transpire