goner
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Then, just before 11am, as foreign office minister Stephen Doughty stood up in the Commons to answer an urgent question on Mandelson, my emails pinged - and Lord Mandelson was a goner.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
When a tree has 25 or more exit holes, it’s probably a goner, Durbin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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
The most recent goner, who gives the book its title, was an investigative journalist.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2022
As sure as I was that Stef was a goner if the rescue didn’t happen by tomorrow.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
Some assumed the fish left behind were goners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
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
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