goner
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That means if it’s separated from the ants it parasitizes, it’s a goner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
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
They keep chatting, she asks his age — he’s 34 — and by the time that he drops her off, Lea is a goner and the story is on its way.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
It’s a goner, he thought — far too damaged to even think about trying to repair.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2022
“And we were kind of right, weren’t we? He wouldn’t be giving you lessons if he thought you were a goner, wouldn’t waste his time — he must think you’ve got a chance!”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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
Photographer Peter Mitchell went about photographing these "goners" before the bulldozers removed every trace of them.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2019
If a supernova explosion happened within five hundred light-years of us, we would be goners, according to Evans–"it would wreck the show," as he cheerfully puts it.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
