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as in to suffice
to be fitting or proper at Mardi Gras, just about anything goes

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as in to lead
to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction the highway goes right along the river

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as in to become
to eventually have as a state or quality she goes crazy on the dance floor when they start playing 1980s pop the room went dark

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as in to belong
to have or be in a usual or proper place these plates go in this cabinet

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as in to vary
to occur within a continuous range of variation selling prices for houses in that neighborhood generally go between one and two million

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as in to put
to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event to play in this game of poker, you have to be willing to go at least five dollars per round

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go

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adjective

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Recent Examples of go
Verb
Je kept the performances going, even with protestors taking up space in the room with her. Stephen Daw, Billboard, 12 June 2025 The pair never went very far, which is consistent with normal otter territorial behavior, according to the zoo. Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 12 June 2025
Adjective
If the Cowboys opt for the poison preferred recently by Carolina, Evans — Tampa Bay’s career receiving yardage leader — could conduct a go-route clinic. Joey Knight, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2023 This is my new go-spring treat for sunny afternoons and porch-chair traveling. Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2021
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There's an exterior pocket for easy access to smaller items while on the go. Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025 Adrenaline addicts can sportfish for giant trevally and grouper by casting poppers and stick baits into the surf zone along reef breaks, while low-key anglers can give hand-line fishing a go at local coral reefs to snag seabream and cod the old-fashioned way. Alexandra Kirkman, Robb Report, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for go
Recent Examples of Synonyms for go
Verb
  • According to his ex, Diddy proceeded to open up a pornographic video on her phone and then summon a male escort named Anton to come over.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 10 June 2025
  • Texas has been able to enforce the age-verification measure while the case proceeds.
    Melissa Quinn June 9, CBS News, 9 June 2025
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  • In May, the board of supervisors unanimously backed recommendations from county staff to move the excess money around, with a considerable amount going to the Sheriff’s Office.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2025
  • For this reason, Israel’s attack was not just on Iran’s nuclear sites but on its missile bases—specifically aiming to prevent Iran from moving its missiles from storage to its launchpads.
    Natasha Lindstaedt, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
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  • In a twenty-year-old with no relevant history, the same finding is likely benign—watchful waiting may suffice.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • Plates and utensils from home will suffice at the beginning.
    Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
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  • This name was given due to the corresponding farming season of picking strawberries, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 12 June 2025
  • In Tuesday’s corresponding move, the Sox designated pitcher Bryse Wilson for assignment.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
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  • Fortune helped edit the autobiography of leading Black intellectual Booker T. Washington, and his civil rights organization, National Afro-American League, is considered an important predecessor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 23 June 2025
  • Sent undercover by the FBI, Blazer offered bribes to coaches from the leading basketball programs in the country — Arizona, Louisville, Auburn and many others.
    Guy Lawson, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025
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  • The work produced in those early years became as instantly iconic and revered in the world of comics as that of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and Stan Lee in Marvel’s 1960s Silver Age.
    Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • The designer just signed a multiyear partnership to become the official apparel brand of the Cadillac Formula 1 Team, the first new addition to the racing competition since 2016.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 17 June 2025
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  • Without a proper response from the immune system, even the most efficient organs won’t prevent the body from collapsing.
    Marcin Nowak, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • The Assad regime suddenly collapsed in December – following years of diplomatic isolation over its horrific abuses in a savage civil war – after Syria’s northern neighbor, Turkey, helped rebels overwhelm Damascus.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 June 2025
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  • As sources of connection and belonging, these facilities become their safe spaces.
    Sharron van der Meulen, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • For years, Parks, a journalist, tracked down information about Roy, who had lived and died in a small town in Louisiana as an outsider, trying to belong, but never quite able to fit in.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025

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