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riddance

[rid-ns] / ˈrɪd ns /


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As 2025 comes to a close, I keep hearing the same thing: Good riddance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

We're past that and good riddance to the mentality.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025

"Good riddance," he wrote in a two-word statement accompanying the Fed's decision to bin the 2023 guidelines -- a marked contrast to the lengthier statements of his colleagues.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025

If this is it for The Weeknd as we know him, good riddance.

From Salon ● May 19, 2025

"Go up and see," said Jack contemptuously, "and good riddance."

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding


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