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Recent Examples of gone
Adjective
People have found out in the process — some who’ve gone virtual — their attendance has gone way up.—Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 7 May 2020 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
Verb
Within hours, the photo had gone viral, sparking memes, wild theories, and thousands of comments trying to uncover the man’s true identity.—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025 With sunflower sea stars suddenly all but gone from their home range, sea urchin numbers exploded, and the hungry urchin hordes descended upon kelp forests.—JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gone
The researchers found the pathogens — Salmonella enterica and Borrelia recurrentis, bacteria that cause paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever, respectively — by analyzing teeth from the fallen soldiers who were found in a mass grave uncovered in 2001 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
Carruth often begins with a small image, such as a fallen pearl or a misplaced wand, and lets the story unspool from emotion.
This is where the Greenpoint comes from, an excellent neo-classic riff on a Manhattan that was invented at Milk & Honey in New York, and comprises the classic build of Manhattan—rye, sweet vermouth, and bitters—into which has been spliced the inimitable French herbal liqueur, Yellow Chartreuse.
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Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
25 Oct. 2025
The Jayhawks did an excellent job of getting back in transition, limiting Louisville’s fast-break opportunities.
Starting in the 1880s, the city and county each built a series of increasingly spacious jails—and then proceeded to fill them well above capacity each winter.
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JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Oct. 2025
Trump then proceeded to bully both Hamas and Netanyahu into accepting this agreement.
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