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to take place
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Recent Examples of went down
This is about the time GM Brad Holmes started making calls, shortly after Aidan Hutchinson went down.
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Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
The batting average with runners in scoring position went down.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
The Democratic plan which would have restored $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts passed into law this summer on top of a permanent extension of the Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, went down along party lines, 47-53.
—John Parkinson, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
Still on his first pass after Hill went down, Tagovailoa went to a new favorite target.
—David Wilson, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
The Bengals struggled in the last two weeks since Joe Burrow went down with an injury.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
And on Sunday, guard Chandler Zavala went down with a knee injury and didn’t return.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
Since Purdy went down with injury, Mac Jones has started two games for San Francisco.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Feeds went down during the day and he was voted out on Vince Panero's HOH.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
The batting average with runners in scoring position went down.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
The Democratic plan which would have restored $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts passed into law this summer on top of a permanent extension of the Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, went down along party lines, 47-53.
—John Parkinson, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
Still on his first pass after Hill went down, Tagovailoa went to a new favorite target.
—David Wilson, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
The Bengals struggled in the last two weeks since Joe Burrow went down with an injury.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
And on Sunday, guard Chandler Zavala went down with a knee injury and didn’t return.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
Since Purdy went down with injury, Mac Jones has started two games for San Francisco.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Feeds went down during the day and he was voted out on Vince Panero's HOH.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for went down
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What happened next, according to first responders, Jasper's aunt Amber Rosen, churchgoers, hospital officials and family members of those impacted, is a blur of violence and terror with the pop-pop-pop of an assault weapon and thick black smoke from fire hanging in the air.—
Georgea Kovanis,
Freep.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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The Canes have beaten Florida and Florida State in back-to-back years; that hasn’t happened since 2001-04.—
Manny Navarro,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
Verb
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That just kind of came down to a sort of a puzzley kind of thing.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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The 2024 championship came down to the waning seconds of Game 5, and the New York Liberty outlasted the Minnesota Lynx in overtime.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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According to its website, there was a buzz about Dave’s from the start.—
Amanda Hancock,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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Even though there was a collection of quarterbacks to start games between the Bernie Kosar era and the 1996 relocation, this is where the quarterback wilderness count usually begins.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Bill Clark, Evan's father, confirmed to The Republic on June 3 that the teens went on the trip.—
Julie Mendes,
AZCentral.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The original Peaky Blinders series culminated with season six in 2022, shortly before Murphy went on to star in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, nabbing an Academy Award.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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That’s kind of the way the whole thing came about.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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The club that exists today was formed in 2014 from the merger of two teams — AEK Kouklia and AEP Paphos — the latter of which also came about due to a merger in 2000.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The agents were reportedly performing a routine patrol in Broadview, a suburb of Chicago, when the alleged assault occurred.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Witnesses told police that the shooting occurred after two parties apparently disagreed about exchanging car insurance information following a minor accident.—
Amy McDaniel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Oct. 2025
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