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go away

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verb

  1. (intr, adverb) to leave, as when starting from home on holiday

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

go away Idioms  
  1. Depart, leave a place, travel somewhere. For example, They went away this morning, or Are you going away this winter? This expression also can be used as an imperative ordering someone to leave: Go away! It can also be used figuratively to mean “disappear,” as in This fever just doesn't go away. [c. 1200]


Example Sentences

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Oil and gas aren’t going to go away.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

It’s good the NFL isn’t as buttoned up as it used to be regarding its public image, although it’s probably wishing this story would go away.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Altogether, “you’re seeing far more seats open in low-wage sectors and seats go away in high-wage sectors,” said Kenan Fikri, a senior fellow at EIG.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

“We thought that the economy was so dynamic that it would fix itself fairly quickly. And we thought that inflation would go away fairly quickly without an intervention by us,” he explained.

From MarketWatch • May 10, 2026

He doesn’t say anything but also doesn’t go away.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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