go forward

phrase

: to continue doing something : to proceed
I don't want to go forward without a contract.

Examples of go forward in a Sentence

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But Sung, Bennett and Miller stayed his order, finding that the California deployment could go forward under an obscure and virtually untested subsection of the law. — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026 Jillian Arnold will be guiding the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees on new and emerging tech going forward. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026 And the way the French election works is that there’s a first round for the Presidential contenders and then the two front-runners go forward. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026 The initiative is a major test of the appetite for state-level taxation of extreme wealth — its result, economists say, could shape how other states approach wealth tax policy going forward. — Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for go forward

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Legal Definition

go forward

intransitive verb
went forward; gone forward; going forward
: to proceed with a lawsuit or a matter in a lawsuit
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