event
noun
[ ɪˈvɛnt ]
• a thing that happens or takes place, especially one of importance.
• "the momentous political events of the late 1980s"
Origin:
mid 16th century (originally in the sense ‘outcome, result’): from Latin eventus, from evenire ‘result, happen’, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out of’ + venire ‘come’.
in the event
• as it turns (or turned) out.
• "he was sent on this important and, in the event, quite fruitless mission"
Similar:
as it turned out,
as it happened,
in the end,
as the outcome,
as a result,
as a consequence,
as an effect,
