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  • past tense form of go.
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went

[went] / wɛnt /










VERB
proceed
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


Example Sentences

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In two months, he went from polling at 5% in a March IGS poll to 25% in a late May poll and finishing first in the unofficial primary vote count.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

"We went into the houses and evacuated the families because we were on the phone to them," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Similarly framed pitches went out to golf companies, resulting in free pallets of turf nutrients and, on loan from Toro for a year, “beautiful red riding machines.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Earlier this year, a website went live for another Calce company called Brownsville Energy Storage Terminals.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

I went up to the kitchen where Nollie had just brewed a fresh pot of coffee, picked it up, and continued with it upstairs to Tante Jans’s rooms.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom



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