go bad
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, there’s no way to prove that’s the case—or that the good won’t go bad.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
“Whatever asset you’re looking at people are on a knife’s edge regarding leverage and that doesn’t have to go bad; that can go very very well before it goes very, very bad,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026
Across rebel-held cities and towns, supermarket shelves sit empty while crops wither in inaccessible fields and go bad at rebel checkpoints.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
"The outage only lasted a day and now we have so much food, but most of it isn't going to go bad, as it is easily preserved."
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025
She should have known it could go bad, what with the prayer and Henry’s hand on hers, and inside that the dark kernel of before.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
