go down (with)

chiefly British
as in to come down (with)
to become affected with (a disease or disorder) across the United Kingdom a number of children have gone down with chicken pox this week

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  • The Hot Boys, Birdman and Mannie Fresh all got together for the first time to rehearse on Halloween and practiced the show Friday and early Saturday as well.
    Shaheem Reid, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Curves on Surfaces The mystery confronting them was how to get the amplitudes that would usually come from the more intricate space-time trajectories, those with numerous splittings and mergings.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
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  • The longer the war continues, the more one or more of these sites risk getting caught in crossfire—an outcome that could have devastating consequences.
    William M. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Abbie Doctor, an aesthetics nurse living in Gloucester, England, caught the bizarre moment her cat, Chewie, brought a live mouse into the house, and promptly brought it for something to eat.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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  • With the new season, eight episodes have contracted down to only six, and in the process the show at times feels as harried and overscheduled as Kate so often is throughout her various misadventures.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The workers were contracted by Blitz Canvassing, a subcontractor for America PAC.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Go down (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go%20down%20%28with%29. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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