GONE UNDER Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

gone under

verb

past participle of go under

as in struck out

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Cameron, whose season record now stands at 5-7, got 18 swings-and-misses and struck out batters using four different pitches on Saturday, according to Statcast.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2026
But that was all the Dodgers (61-34) would score against Rodriguez, who gave up seven hits and struck out five over six innings to improve to 8-3.

— Joaquin Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026

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Emergency authorities said 190 buildings collapsed completely and another 856 sustained significant damage.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
Once known best for her #MomTok dances, the 33-year-old Brigham Young University fine arts graduate and mother of three in 2025 successfully collapsed the boundary between creator culture and traditional entertainment.

— Emma Barker Bonomo, Time, 14 July 2026

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Scheffler, who hadn't missed a cut since 2022, shot a 2-over 72 in the second round, finishing two shots outside the cut line.

— Jeff Goudy, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
But please remember that in 2019, Judge missed 60 games and Giancarlo Stanton only played 18 the whole year — and the Yankees still won 103 games.

— Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026

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The day could be sliced into identical pieces, the body trained to answer the bell, and the worker folded into a machine that only made sense when every human motion had been made useful to someone else.

— Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Fire shelters weigh around 6 pounds and are folded up inside several protective layers in a firefighter’s pack.

— Jack Dura, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of folded

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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

Definition of flunked

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Shareholders are upset with massive losses and strategic bets that dramatically flamed out.

— Andrew Staples, Fortune, 3 July 2026
While many of those early Internet high-flyers flamed out, the ones that survived — think Amazon and Google — eventually became profitable businesses or even household names.

— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 25 June 2026

Definition of flamed out

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This was the case for Morocco’s opener, where Casemiro had eyes on two players at once while his team-mates failed to cut out the pass ahead of him.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 6 July 2026
The stutter-step approach by Bruno Guimãraes on the penalty kick failed anyway and the game remained scoreless into the first hydration break.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026

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