go bad
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"A lot of things could happen in a marriage and you want to discuss them when you still love each other rather than when things go bad and you want to take revenge," says Celine.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Unfortunately, there’s no way to prove that’s the case—or that the good won’t go bad.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
“Whatever asset you’re looking at people are on a knife’s edge regarding leverage and that doesn’t have to go bad; that can go very very well before it goes very, very bad,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026
Across rebel-held cities and towns, supermarket shelves sit empty while crops wither in inaccessible fields and go bad at rebel checkpoints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
She should have known it could go bad, what with the prayer and Henry’s hand on hers, and inside that the dark kernel of before.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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