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for good



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Also, for good and all . Permanently, forever. For example, I'm moving to Europe for good . [1500s] Also see for keeps .

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Example Sentences

Had it not been advancement, progress, unhoped-for good fortune, that made him a member of that learned corporation?

While they were talking thus, the thirty men rode up in high spirits, announcing to him his unlooked-for good fortune.

And, by some unhoped-for good fortune, all this has only raised me in her eyes.

No one who had not witnessed it could ever imagine Pinocchio's joy at this long-sighed-for good fortune.

We all are apt to think so, when some long wished and faintly hoped-for good is ours at last.

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