go away
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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She gives her mother pushback or tells her to go away.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
“We keep a Fifth Fleet headquarters there, and the question is probably not does that go away, but what does it look like when this is over?” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
And the biggest plague, the one that never seems to go away, is deep-seated resentment for, often outright hostility to, mothers and the work of parenting.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2026
"We used to go away and hide… not to upset the parents," Gaynor told them.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
It comforted me to know that these visions, too, would go away with time.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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