as in gone
to turn out as planned or desired
his sales pitch went over as expected and he saw a 200% increase in his commissions
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By then, the scene had gone mainstream.—
Anna Wiener,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025 -
Just about everything has gone poorly.—
Jonas Siegel,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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Photos clicked across lenses have minimum noise and a good amount of detail for a night shot.—
Prakhar Khanna,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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Every transition has clicked — a relief to NBC, no doubt, because engineering successions in morning TV is one of the genre’s most difficult feats.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2025
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At 30 and coming off a so-so year, Ramsey won’t fetch more than a third-round pick.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2025
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Morrison is coming off a serious hip injury that limited the corner to just six games in 2024.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Apr. 2025
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The massive popular revolt against the 2021 coup, particularly among young people who had thrived during the previous decade, demonstrates that that strategy in fact succeeded, if at enormous cost, as the Myanmar military appears incapable now of reasserting its control nationwide.—
Derek Mitchell,
NPR,
23 Dec. 2024
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Could President Yoon have succeeded?—
Cressida Leyshon,
The New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2024
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