How to Use go it alone in a Sentence

go it alone

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  • This time its for those among us who sometimes go it alone.
    Janae Williams, Oklahoman, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Mammals that mingle live longer than species that go it alone.
    Nidhi Subbaraman, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The hunger among Democrats for Biden to go it alone is widely shared.
    Farnoush Amiri, ajc, 12 Mar. 2022
  • But the singer-actress, who was glowing in a hot pink outfit, didn’t go it alone.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 12 May 2023
  • Those who have been diagnosed with this condition do not have to go it alone.
    Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Those who go it alone, or pick their partners poorly, run the risk of being left behind.
    WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
  • There are plenty of charter companies and guides in the area that can help tourists who don’t want to go it alone.
    Mike and Wendy Pramik, cleveland, 7 July 2022
  • Build a financial team Having a team ensures you don’t have to go it alone.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But don’t go it alone; bounce ideas off your coach, your team and the person who almost always disagrees with you.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Which is why Democrats don't want to go it alone on the debt limit suspension or increase.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Still, in many situations, being able to go it alone is a clear benefit for a species.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Effective presidents must work with Congress rather than go it alone.
    Louis J. Capozzi Iii, National Review, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Guerrero may have to go it alone in the Division Series to earn Bichette a shot in a future round.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But her book How to Stand Up to a Dictator doesn’t suggest that anyone should go it alone.
    Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Not every successful Boston company is trying to go it alone.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • That would be nice, but no single medical institution can go it alone in reforming the healthcare system.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
  • After 27 fights with his father behind him, Devin Haney is prepared to go it alone June 4.
    Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
  • The rest, like Lafayette, get a lawyer for just one mandatory settlement conference; if the case isn’t resolved then, the tenant has to go it alone.
    Calmatters, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • To Beijing, though, the very expansion of that capital pool may indicate that China is wealthy enough to go it alone.
    Clay Chandler, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Categories for individual dogs include weight-based and shredder, that is, pros that go it alone after being launched by owners.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Here, however, the revered singer-songwriter will finally go it alone — and probably in acoustic fashion.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Is 'America First' starting to backfire as Washington's allies go it alone?
    Ian King, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The important emerging areas of study all reflect globalization and the fact that no country, however powerful, can go it alone.
    Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Although both parties agree the debt limit needs raising, Republicans would rather Democrats go it alone, so as to create a spending-sized stain on midterms.
    Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 22 Sep. 2021
  • McConnell and Senate Republicans have insisted that Democrats go it alone to raise the debt ceiling.
    Kevin Freking, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Don’t go it alone—leverage NIST’s tools to proactively prepare for the quantum era and secure your systems and data.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Many design stores — such as Texas Paint & Wallpaper — have personal designers to help make those selections, so there’s no need to go it alone.
    Gina Mayfield, Dallas News, 1 May 2023
  • But when her companion suffered an injury, Trabucco, who did not speak German, had to go it alone, sometimes speaking to hundreds of salespeople at a time.
    Marvin Pave, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Going nuclear would prepare Ottawa to face this new world by reconfiguring the continental partnership and helping the country go it alone.
    Moritz S. Graefrath, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Florida courts don’t require lawyers for pregnant women in hearings about their medical decisions and the hospital didn’t provide an advocate, so Doyley had to go it alone.
    Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2026

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