as in to progress
to move forward along a course
everything was going along swimmingly until you interfered
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Recent Examples of go along
Each recipe had a love story and a love name that goes along with it.
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Demarco Williams, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Judges generally go along with prosecutors’ requests to drop charges.
—James Barron, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
No federal judge would allow that and Hochul must not go along.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
Castle averaged a rookie-best 14.9 points to go along with 3.6 assists and 3.1 rebounds in 12 games in January.
—Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2025
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Demarco Williams, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Judges generally go along with prosecutors’ requests to drop charges.
—James Barron, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
No federal judge would allow that and Hochul must not go along.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
Castle averaged a rookie-best 14.9 points to go along with 3.6 assists and 3.1 rebounds in 12 games in January.
—Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for go along
Verb
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As the evening progressed, the patio swelled with A-listers.—
Paul Chi,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 2025
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But as the pandemic progressed, killing hundreds of thousands of people around the world, Cuomo’s response also faced intense scrutiny over a controversial directive to transfer recovering Covid-19 patients back to nursing homes.—
Gloria Pazmino,
CNN,
1 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Historic Fed Takeover Attempts Before getting into what presidents have done, start with the 1913 creation of the Federal Reserve by Congress through the Federal Reserve Act.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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The trick, though, is that Finch and his associates along with Chanel’s team are the ones who do the inviting.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
28 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Other Vatican functions are proceeding normally, including the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year celebrations.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
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Instead the two proceeded to murder another faithful and wait for the roundtable to defeat each other once and for all.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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The group then marched to CUNY’s City College in Harlem, where Gov. Hochul was scheduled to speak at a workforce event that was called off at the eleventh hour.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2025
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In March 1913, thousands of women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., the day before the presidential inauguration in protest of women’s disenfranchisement in elections.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Pawson was brought to the shelter for not getting along with other felines.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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Well, that and getting Carl and Lindsay to get along.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
12 Feb. 2025
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As of February, the 2-year-old tan and black canine has spent two birthdays at the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA,) waiting for her forever family to come along.—
TJ Macias,
Miami Herald,
19 Feb. 2025
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Her recent accolades have come along with some standout red carpet moments.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
16 Feb. 2025
Verb
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This goes for the show's host, Kevin O'Connor, and its core cast of experts — Tom Silva, Richard Trethewey and Jenn Nawada — and for members of production who are behind the scenes.—
Maddie McGay,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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The Canucks must finally go about actually accumulating more talent, as opposed to shuffling it about and playing whack-a-mole with their aggregate talent level — exchanging, for example, enviable centre depth (but a patchwork blue line) for enviable blue-line depth (but patchwork centre depth).—
Thomas Drance,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
Verb
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While Watching Episode 1 of The Baldwins By Emma Specter Bringing a physical gift to the wedding is typically reserved when someone goes off the registry to purchase a wedding gift.—
Brooke Bobb,
Vogue,
20 Feb. 2025
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Guns have a way of going off at inconvenient moments.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Go along.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go%20along. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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