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as in exploded
to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure
specialists were able to deactivate the bomb before it went off
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as in proceeded
to move forward along a course
the wedding went off without so much as a single glitch
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as in moved
to leave a place often for another
don't go off without telling us where we can find you
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Recent Examples of gone off
Had that gone off without a hitch, it would've been forgotten.
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Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
Snoop Connor scored on the next play and Orlando was back in familiar territory, trailing at home and only about 5 minutes had gone off the clock.
—Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026
There, a car had gone off the road and a man inside appeared to have been shot, police said.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2026
Has your phone ever gone off during a live performance?
—Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 24 Apr. 2026
The film easily could've gone off the rails in less capable hands, but Yeoh grounds it in an emotional truth as Evelyn journeys from embittered to empowered.
—Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026
One has just gone off the rails, and one has stayed completely on the rails.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2026
Then, a long, explosive sound, as loud as if a bomb had gone off.
—Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Dawson’s Creek had just gone off the air and the actor, then 26, was eager to talk about his future.
—Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026
Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
Snoop Connor scored on the next play and Orlando was back in familiar territory, trailing at home and only about 5 minutes had gone off the clock.
—Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026
There, a car had gone off the road and a man inside appeared to have been shot, police said.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2026
Has your phone ever gone off during a live performance?
—Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 24 Apr. 2026
The film easily could've gone off the rails in less capable hands, but Yeoh grounds it in an emotional truth as Evelyn journeys from embittered to empowered.
—Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026
One has just gone off the rails, and one has stayed completely on the rails.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2026
Then, a long, explosive sound, as loud as if a bomb had gone off.
—Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Dawson’s Creek had just gone off the air and the actor, then 26, was eager to talk about his future.
—Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gone off
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This was the reactor that exploded on April 26, 1986, and sent radioactive fallout across Europe.—
Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
8 May 2026
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Jafa exploded on the art world a decade ago, when Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death had a surprise debut at Art Basel in Switzerland, before becoming a sensation when Gavin Brown debuted it in New York ahead of the 2016 election.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
8 May 2026
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The team had been checking for ruins around the Bauhaus retail center before further commercial development proceeded in the area, continuing work started in 2011 with the discovery of an early Christian church there.—
Anne Doran,
ARTnews.com,
11 May 2026
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian struck a defiant tone as negotiations proceeded Sunday.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
11 May 2026
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While the chipmaker — and the world's most valuable company — continues to prosper and is expected to show revenue growth of 70% this fiscal year, Wall Street has moved elsewhere, piling into businesses that were hardly visible in the initial years of the artificial intelligence buildout.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
8 May 2026
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Researchers tested the system in a maze-navigation experiment where the robot moved autonomously without cameras.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
8 May 2026
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One person is dead and another is seriously injured following a crash on Sunday in Greenwich where police said a driver was allegedly going about double the speed limit and had blown through a red light before crashing into a utility pole.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
11 May 2026
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According to the public prosecutor's office, the bounce house was blown into the air by a gust of wind, per the outlets.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
11 May 2026
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In addition, many of San Diego’s trolley stops are in the South Bay and southeastern San Diego neighborhoods where the city has done significantly less upzoning in recent years — and where much of the land is zoned for single-family housing.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 May 2026
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But the conflict hasn’t done much damage to the American job market so far.—
Paul Wiseman,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
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The comparison is pretty accurate—shingles is caused by the same virus as chickenpox, varicella zoster, which can stay dormant for decades after those itchy red spots are gone.—
Petra Guglielmetti,
Glamour,
7 May 2026
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Turnover have gone independent and lined up a new album, Down on Earth.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
7 May 2026
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This beguiling wine bar on one of the original streets of Chinatown is a model for how to enter a historic neighborhood respectfully, without erasing what came before.—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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Then the Solar System Dynamics Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzes the objects that will come closest to Earth, using infrared-scanning telescopes such as NEOWISE to estimate the size of asteroids, especially darker ones that are difficult to see in the visible spectrum.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 May 2026
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More than 100 people aboard a cruise ship that departed from Fort Lauderdale last month have fallen ill from norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
9 May 2026
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After walking into the training shed midway through practice, Hutchins departed the practice field.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2026
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“Gone off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gone%20off. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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