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• Stanley, who’s also known as Starchild, and the Corvette go way back.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2022
• Galbreath and Matthys, who will pitch against Southridge in the state final, go way back.
  — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2021
• Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian West go way back — like, to the early 2000s.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• Lucy Hale and her blunt bob go way back — all the way to elementary school, in fact.
  — Sara Miranda, Allure, 10 Mar. 2022
• And people feel supportive and a lot of Clevelanders go way back with the band.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2022
• The Murder Mystery stars go way back — and their friendship runs deep.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
• The two men go way back and stayed in touch even when relations between the two countries were frozen.
  — Sha Hua, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
• Dogs as tools of oppression go way back in this country.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2022
• As a pairing, fruit preserves and fatty meats go way back.
  — Eric Kim, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Probably a good way to start off with talking about that scene is to say that Imelda Staunton and I go way back.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 10 Nov. 2022
• Among modern music’s pop divas, Pink and Spears go way back.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Winston and Styles go way back to the musician's boy-band days in One Direction.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2021
• Some of the other homes also go way back; two of them were originally built in the 1860s and had to be updated.
  — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2021
• Napier and Smart go way back, both of them growing up as sons of high school football coaches in Georgia.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 29 Oct. 2022
• The two actors go way back, having met in the '70s as castmates at Toronto's branch of the Second City improv theater.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein go way back, and the actor is reminiscing about their years of friendship.
  — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• Scientists have yet to stamp a date on when this happened, but nervous systems go way back.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 16 June 2023
• Just bear in mind that the ultimate motives for homicide often go way back into the past, even to childhood.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
• And while their public appearances together are rare, Swift and Sasha Fierce go way back.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• Their recent attacks on sailing yachts have made news, but our encounters with the predators go way back.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
• Frito-Lay and PediPlace, which offers health care for children in low-income or uninsured families, go way back.
  — Dallas News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Her father, Paul Sansone Jr., has also confirmed that the two families go way back.
  — Kelsey Lentz, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2023
• Blomstrann and Waters go way back, playing against each other in indoor leagues and coaching against each other in high school.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 6 Oct. 2020
• Gilfry and Fleming go way back to the beginning of their respective careers.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
• But Bright and Stitch go way back — even further than the little blue monster’s cinematic debut.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• The businesses that form Cassava Technologies go way back to 2004.
  — Carlos Mureithi, Quartz, 5 May 2022
• Harbaugh and Norvell go way back, facing each other as players, becoming NFL teammates and coaching together in the league.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2022
• Sun Noodle and Momofuku go way back, almost to the beginning of the ramen revolution that began when then-unknown David Chang opened the first humble noodle bar.
  — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
• Though their friendship didn't become the stuff of social media obsession until much later, Gomez and Raisa actually go way back.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• Trump's false claims of election fraud, which animated the riot on Jan. 6, have reassembled — virtually, anyway — a cast of characters that go way back.
  — Elizabeth Williamson New York Times, Star Tribune, 27 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024