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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Just about everything has gone poorly.—
Jonas Siegel,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025 -
Sarah told me that both Diaz and Williams later told her that Trent had gone with them and had more to drink.—
Ronan Farrow,
The New Yorker,
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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Consistent in graded company, McAfee comes off a runner-up effort in the West Virginia Derby (G3).—
Jared Welch,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Indeed, the response to Coppola’s cross-country tour came off less like the beginnings of an underground fan base, and more like a film community tolerating an auteur’s exhaustive defense of his work.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
18 Aug. 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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