as in to progress
to move forward along a course
everything was going along swimmingly until you interfered
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Recent Examples of go along
Each recipe had a love story and a love name that goes along with it.
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Demarco Williams, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Judges generally go along with prosecutors’ requests to drop charges.
—James Barron, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
No federal judge would allow that and Hochul must not go along.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
Castle averaged a rookie-best 14.9 points to go along with 3.6 assists and 3.1 rebounds in 12 games in January.
—Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2025
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Demarco Williams, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Judges generally go along with prosecutors’ requests to drop charges.
—James Barron, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
No federal judge would allow that and Hochul must not go along.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
Castle averaged a rookie-best 14.9 points to go along with 3.6 assists and 3.1 rebounds in 12 games in January.
—Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for go along
Verb
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But as the pandemic progressed, killing hundreds of thousands of people around the world, Cuomo’s response also faced intense scrutiny over a controversial directive to transfer recovering Covid-19 patients back to nursing homes.—
Gloria Pazmino,
CNN,
1 Mar. 2025
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As the evening progressed, the patio swelled with A-listers.—
Paul Chi,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 2025
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Historic Fed Takeover Attempts Before getting into what presidents have done, start with the 1913 creation of the Federal Reserve by Congress through the Federal Reserve Act.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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The trick, though, is that Finch and his associates along with Chanel’s team are the ones who do the inviting.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
28 Feb. 2025
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Strategic work can proceed in teams as organizations gain better reliability when moving from fire-response tactics to proactive risk mitigation.—
Sai Sandeep Ogety,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Their suspicions ended up being warranted, as the ever-elusive rapper proceeded to delay the record for more than a year despite pre-orders, merch, and numerous festival appearances.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2025
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The group then marched to CUNY’s City College in Harlem, where Gov. Hochul was scheduled to speak at a workforce event that was called off at the eleventh hour.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2025
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In March 1913, thousands of women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., the day before the presidential inauguration in protest of women’s disenfranchisement in elections.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Feb. 2025
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With the exception of former Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval — the pair famously did not get along, as Stause is friends with Sandoval’s ex, Ariana Madix — none of the cast ever seriously considered Stause to possibly be a Traitor.—
Nicole Fell,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Feb. 2025
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But the two seemed to get along pretty well outside the pods.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
28 Feb. 2025
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However, characters like Puss in Boots and Cinderella didn’t come along in popular culture until the 16th century.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
28 Feb. 2025
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The ingredient delivers the same skin-smoothing effects, but doesn’t come along with quite the same risk of irritation.—
Zoë Weiner,
Glamour,
25 Feb. 2025
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The Vikings went undefeated in the DuKane Conference and won a regional title.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2025
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Fox’s counterpart in the blockbuster trade, Zach LaVine, scored a game-high 36 points while going 7-of-11 from 3-point range.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Mar. 2025
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The signing was scrapped after the leaders' Oval Office talks went off the rails and White House officials asked Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian delegation to leave.—
Compiled byDemocrat-Gazette stafffrom wire reports,
arkansasonline.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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The show has been compared to Lost and Scandal, but specifically the later years when those series went off the rails.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Go along.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go%20along. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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