GOING ALONG Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

going along

verb

Definition of going along next

present participle of go along

as in progressing

to move forward along a course everything was going along swimmingly until you interfered

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Recent Examples of going along And that, going along with his offensive capabilities, makes a pretty good player. —

Michael Russo, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026 Advertisement Detective Park is forced to decide between telling the truth and risk letting a killer go free, and going along with a lie that will lead to that killer’s likely imprisonment. —

Kayti Burt, Time, 13 Feb. 2026 Observers infer that people who go alone are more genuinely interested in the experience and more focused on its quality, rather than simply going along with someone else’s preferences. —

Peter McGraw, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2026 Another similar assumption is that since LLMs are tuned by AI makers to be sycophantic, the AI might computationally be gauging that the best way to make the user feel good is by going along with a delusion-crafting chat. —

Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026 Observers infer that people who go alone are more genuinely interested in the experience and more focused on its quality, rather than simply going along with someone else’s preferences. —

Peter McGraw, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2026 There was a 4-foot-high river going along the side of the house. —

MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025 Democrats have made extending the help their chief demand to end the shutdown, and while some Republicans are sympathetic, the GOP leadership isn’t going along at this point. —

Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2025 Buzz around gold has rippled through markets this year — but silver has been quietly going along for the ride, culminating in a new record high that analysts say could double in the coming years. —

Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025

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Dane announced last year that he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a rare but swiftly progressing neurodegenerative disease.

— Chad de Guzman, Time, 20 Feb. 2026
But the signs that the union guys were right were confirmed when the typically highly articulate JB Pritzker was reduced to a stutter when a reporter asked the governor of Illinois how things were progressing with negotiations with the Bears to build a stadium in Arlington Heights.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026