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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of go.

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Examples

  • (_She goes out hurriedly through the hall door_.) _Nora_ (_goes to_ HELMER'S _door, opens it and peeps in_).

    A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen 1867

  • In the meantime, I claim that as far as such evidence goes, — (and it certainly goes a very little way, yet, _as far as it goes_,) — it is a note of S. Mark’s authorship, that within the compass of the last twelve verses of his Gospel these two compounded verbs should be met with.

    The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark John William Burgon 1850

  • If a label goes out of their way before they sign you, that's pretty impressive.

    Mike Ragogna: Fueled By Ramen's First Fifteen Years: A Conversation With Label Co-Founder John Janick, Plus FBR Band Tributes Mike Ragogna 2011

  • If a label goes out of their way before they sign you, that's pretty impressive.

    Mike Ragogna: Fueled By Ramen's First Fifteen Years: A Conversation With Label Co-Founder John Janick, Plus FBR Band Tributes Mike Ragogna 2011

  • Real McCoy: According to the Dictionary of American Regional English, the term goes back as far as 1890; lexicographer Eric Partridge traces it to Scotland in the 1880s.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Real McCoy: According to the Dictionary of American Regional English, the term goes back as far as 1890; lexicographer Eric Partridge traces it to Scotland in the 1880s.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • And then we said, okay, let's look forward, there is a bid of the new normal the term goes around, debt to GDP is approaching 90%, which takes something out of GDP growth and personal income growth, the baby boomers are ageing, you got the baby bus behind them.

    unknown title 2012

  • His strained relationship with the label goes back to the success he achieved with his second album, The Cool.

    The Guardian World News Angus Batey 2011

  • The term goes back to the 16th century, when alto parts in church music were sung only by men - either high tenors, falsetto singers (counter-tenors), boys, or castrati (those men who were surgically "altered" such that their voices never dropped at puberty).

    News 2011

  • The quality has gone in before the name goes on it.

    A Night Out with Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman 2011

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