gone under

past participle of go under

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gone under
Verb
  • Through five innings, the 27-year-old struck out seven batters and gave up seven hits while allowing two runs, continuing to cement himself as Miami’s most consistent pitcher in a season defined by injuries across the pitching staff.
    Tyler Carmona, Miami Herald, 21 June 2026
  • And with a runner on second in the fifth, Bellinger struck out on three pitches, swinging through each, including back-to-back 98-mph fastballs to end the inning.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • Roadbeds may be washed out by floodwaters.
    Natassia Paloma, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • That's because the odor is washed out in the rinse cycle, leaving behind only the benefits of adding it to the wash.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 14 June 2026
Verb
  • Niv Shisler, 24, an aspiring rapper who works at Dorfman’s restaurant, moved to the town last November lured by cheap housing when rents collapsed during the war.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
  • The project had to be unplugged within months — before being widely deployed — when the company behind it collapsed.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026
Verb
  • Maybe your flight was canceled, your luggage disappeared, you got stranded overseas, missed a cruise departure or learned a hard lesson the hard way.
    Josh Rivera, USA Today, 21 June 2026
  • The consensus seems to be that the Mavs will target a point guard, which makes sense as the Mavs’ current lead guard, Kyrie Irving, is 34 and missed all of last season recovering from a torn ACL.
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 June 2026
Verb
  • Sequence unraveled, and with it the onward rush, progression, the sense of one event coming after another; my understanding of cause and effect, of the chronological chopping-up of time both personal and historical—before and after, premodern and modern—all blurred, folded, unraveled out of reach.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Companies tallied their emissions, governments folded those tallies into national inventories, and the rest of us took the sum on trust.
    Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
Verb
  • Baresi flunked a trial in Linate, near the city’s airport, where the academy players used to train.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • John has just flunked the bar for the second time, and his job at the DA’s office — which has a three-strike policy — is in peril.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • And then a surprising proportion of the early front-runners or near-front-runners in the primary—Katie Porter, Eric Swalwell—flamed out of favor for reasons of their own authorship.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 2 June 2026
  • The Knicks turned to experienced Mike Brown, which came off like Plan B at best, but while Brown has done a masterful job in coaching to his personnel’s strengths and leading the franchise over the playoff hump that tripped up Thibs, the Mavericks flamed out and fired Kidd last week.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2026
Verb
  • Two other ships owned by Lan, priced at about $175,000 each, have also failed to find buyers.
    Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
  • Staff at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System recommended Tuesday that the board drop United Healthcare plans after negotiations with the insurer over next year’s premiums failed to yield lower rates.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2026
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“Gone under.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gone%20under. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.

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