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to take place
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Recent Examples of go down
As expected, the game went down to the final second.
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Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Williams, meanwhile, is one of the few players in the state who can score 27 points and have her average actually go down.
—Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
As the sun goes down, temperatures will drop significantly and range between the 30s and 40s.
—Brooke Muckerman, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 5 Feb. 2026
That game went down as one of the best of all time.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
After yesterday’s lead story in TAFC, here’s Matt Woosnam right on cue to explain what the hell went down at Crystal Palace in the transfer window.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Valladares owns the business alongside her husband and says when the immigration crackdown ramped up, sales went down.
—Ashley Grams, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
The two men went down the road to the hardware store in Western Bay to pick up supplies for the job.
—Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
Norm’s arc and, more broadly speaking, everything that went down with the Vault-Tec staff from Vault 31.
—Jack King, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2026
Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Williams, meanwhile, is one of the few players in the state who can score 27 points and have her average actually go down.
—Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
As the sun goes down, temperatures will drop significantly and range between the 30s and 40s.
—Brooke Muckerman, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 5 Feb. 2026
That game went down as one of the best of all time.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
After yesterday’s lead story in TAFC, here’s Matt Woosnam right on cue to explain what the hell went down at Crystal Palace in the transfer window.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Valladares owns the business alongside her husband and says when the immigration crackdown ramped up, sales went down.
—Ashley Grams, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
The two men went down the road to the hardware store in Western Bay to pick up supplies for the job.
—Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
Norm’s arc and, more broadly speaking, everything that went down with the Vault-Tec staff from Vault 31.
—Jack King, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for go down
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The organoids showed cell death, inflammation and glial scarring, closely mimicking what happens in the human body after severe injury.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Feb. 2026
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However, this only happens in a biosphere that’s saturated with life; there is no guarantee that most inhabited planets would have had this occur.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Feb. 2026
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The snow is really coming down in Livigno, so visibility is going to be difficult for the skiers heading down this moguls course.—
Sean Nevin,
NBC news,
14 Feb. 2026
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On February 13th, Grace Van Patten and Jackson White and Grace Gummer and Mark Ronson watched Veronica Leoni’s Calvin Klein Collection come down the runway, while Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector bounded between Fforme and Kallmeyer.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2026
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There were a half-dozen legitimate ninth-inning arms on the market, and the Giants landed zero.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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In this week’s show, there were slinky fabrics and macho outerwear, and scraps of fur over jersey dresses clinging to terrific asses of all sizes.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Go down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go%20down. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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