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goner

[gaw-ner, gon-er] / ˈgɔ nər, ˈgɒn ər /




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I kept thinking: "If the next vehicle comes down the hill, the driver will struggle to see me and I will be a goner."

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

This incoming family knows nothing of that, but already, their housecat, Cider, feels like a goner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

It’s a goner, he thought — far too damaged to even think about trying to repair.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2022

Then when the camera lingered on his departure from Dragonstone, until the little boy on his little dragon faded into the night, I was sure he was a goner.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2022

"I can't help it. I'm a goner now, anyway. Don't you see the difference?"

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Some assumed the fish left behind were goners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

But once services such as YouTube, Twitter and Instagram came for us, we were goners.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2023

When Polkinghorne went out to check on her incubated emu eggs after the spring storm caused a power outage, she thought all the unhatched chicks were goners.

From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022

"When I was in Vietnam, as long as that flag was flying, we were fighting. If there was no flag up there, we were goners, so yea, it means a lot to me."

From Fox News ● Sep. 23, 2021

If he, rather than anyone else, saw us, we’d be goners.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely


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