went

past tense of go
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as in led
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 became
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 belonged
to have or be in a usual or proper place these plates go in this cabinet

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as in ranged
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 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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Recent Examples of went Smith-Schuster tumbled backward to the ground, jumped up and went after Branch. Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025 Showing confidence the whole night that the outcome wouldn’t really be in doubt, BSU went for it seven times on fourth down, converting six of those. Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 12 Oct. 2025 Stafford went 17-for-26 for 181 yards and one touchdown. The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 Instead, the moment went viral across social media as the Rams’ special teams issues continue. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025 Olson went four innings, scattering five hits and allowed just one run. Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025 The number went from 47 in 2023 to 30 in 2024. Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025 After a back injury during his senior year, Honer went all in on music and left the diving behind. Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2025 Those bleak years devastated the American rail industry, as revenue fell by 50 percent from 1928 to 1933, and a third of the country’s railroads went into bankruptcy. Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for went
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  • Branch then proceeded to strike Smith-Schuster on the front of the helmet with an open-handed blow, sending the receiver to the ground.
    Ben Morse, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Tensions in Venezuela had remained high after the election, and, in the political fallout over the way that Maduro’s government had proceeded—without sharing the electoral rolls as proof of its win—most of Latin America’s governments had condemned it.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • With that goal, Messi moved into first place in the Golden Boot race, one goal ahead of Denis Bouanga of Los Angeles FC, who is away on national team duty with Gabon.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2025
  • During that time, my mother developed dementia and was moved into a senior-care facility.
    Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
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  • Soon, though, Shahn began to doubt whether such pleasant, inoffensive paintings sufficed.
    Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Face-to-face sales are needed where online contracts once sufficed.
    Alla Adam, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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  • To confirm the match, the team carefully aligned the Hubble and JWST images using 36 stars visible in both datasets as reference points, ensuring that every pixel corresponded to the same spot in the sky, the study noted.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • To calculate the scattering amplitude for a collision of n particles, physicists would have to add up many BCFW terms — and each of those terms corresponded to a region of the positive Grassmannian in n dimensions.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • There were three distance options -- 20, 50 and 100 kilometers -- that led riders north up in and around the Bella Vista area before bringing them back to downtown Bentonville.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers, led by Jong-Hwa Shon, designed a prototype that uses riboflavin as an electron mediator.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • In response to questions, the city said that some DEI policies are being rolled back by Mayor William Cogswell, who last year became the first Republican to assume the position since 1877.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The pressure to keep costs under control became more urgent during the pandemic when Macy’s was fighting to stave off bankruptcy.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
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  • After the state distributor Embrafilme was dismantled in 1990, national production nearly collapsed, silencing a generation of filmmakers.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 12 Oct. 2025
  • As for that Oregon-Penn State game, the Nittany Lions have full-on collapsed since Drew Allar’s OT interception gave the Ducks what looked like an impressive victory.
    Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
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  • Stunted palm trees that belonged elsewhere, a distance too great to name.
    Sofía Pereda, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The first drive of the second half belonged mostly to Wisner, who picked up 43 yards on six touches to get the Longhorns in the red zone for their go-ahead score.
    Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Went.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/went. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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