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
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
A little over twelve hours ago that Death-Cast dude hit me up telling me I’m a goner today.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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 he, rather than anyone else, saw us, we’d be goners.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
