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go-around

[ goh-uh-round ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an act or instance of going around something, as a circle, course, or traffic pattern, and returning to the starting point.
a series or pattern of occurrences; round:
After the third go-around of questions, the witness was released.
runaround ( def 1 ).

go around

adverb to move about
adverbfoll bywith to frequent the society (of a person or group of people)
she went around with older men
adverb to be sufficient
are there enough sweets to go round?
to circulate (in)
measles is going round the school
preposition to be actively and constantly engaged in (doing something)
she went around caring for the sick
to be long enough to encircle
will that belt go round you?

First recorded in 1890–95; noun use of verb phrase go around

And yet, could Alison Grimes go around the state bragging about this?

They have conventions for dance, and these kids go around the country as the winner.

Beyond lucking into a scholarship, of which there are only ever so many to go around, that means loans.

You can go around all day and not hear anybody even mention Afghanistan.

This is likely to be Dewhurst's second go-around losing a GOP primary in the past two years.

I can't go around docks without a boat, and I hain't got none.

You can't go around asking for a job and saying, "But I was making money for them."

Now and then they would come close together; their trunks would strike each other, then they would separate and go around again.

She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

You see, the house is largely furnished from my two rooms at college, and there was hardly enough to go around.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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