gone bad
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The following track, “Death Wish,” is about the torment of a new love gone bad, and it unfolds over plucked acoustic guitars and a distant bass drum that sounds like a heartbeat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Her albums are forged from the shards of relationships gone bad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
Yet another instance of a surge gone bad.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
The table is littered with scrawled notes and numbers, the detritus of hundreds of transactions gone bad, conflicts large and small, corporate and local, petty and profound.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2022
He said where it really had been hell was at San Gabriele and the attack beyond Lom that had gone bad.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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