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Recent Examples of gone
Adjective
Inspired by Eusope’s great-grandfather’s recipe, the palm-size puffs are maddeningly delicious and gone much too soon.—Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 12 Mar. 2020 Hanks and Wilson, both 63, are the first major entertainment figures who appear to have caught the illness, and who’ve gone public with the news.—Dan Singer, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2020
Verb
Klarna and Chime have each gone public in the last three months.—Leslie Picker, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025 With Micah Parsons now gone, big shoes are available for any defender willing to bring a big game-wrecking attitude every time Matt Eberflus’ group steps between the lines.—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gone
Rochín-Bañaga, who was not involved in the new research, has used the method to analyze ancient corals and belemnites, an extinct order of squidlike cephalopods.
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Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
Paleoanthropologists have once again sparked a debate after suggesting that a long-extinct human relative may have buried its dead more than 120,000 years before modern humans started funerary practices.
That’s what the lesson here is for me, to treat others with respect and kindness, to honor the wishes of the fallen, and to have this dream of a better future.
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Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2025
Members of the New York Yankees were given permission by MLB to wear FDNY and NYPD hats tonight, honoring the fallen first responders of 9/11.
In earlier phases of the litigation, the district court issued provisional reinstatement orders at several agencies, but those orders were stayed by the Supreme Court while the case proceeded.
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Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
Arias-Galva said that she had been cut off by Heinz, who proceeded to threaten her with death and then allegedly shot her.
That sentiment has coincided with plummeting sales of Teslas, particularly in Europe.
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Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Williams, 92, is a Jamaican immigrant with end-stage kidney disease whose roof, parts of which are nine and 19 years old, began to leak after a period of heavy weather in late September that coincided with the passage of Hurricane Helene.
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