for keeps

Example Sentences

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I’d been friendly with the group before, but now we were bonded for keeps.

From The Wall Street Journal

He kept an eye out for Selener — and now he has her for keeps.

From Los Angeles Times

"Penny Lane is in our ears and in our eyes - and this time it's for keeps."

From BBC

Putin is playing for keeps, so are the Ukrainians, and so should we.

From Salon

Russian troll farms spent more than a million dollars a month in the 2016 election; nowadays you can get your own custom-trained large language model for keeps, for less than $500,000.

From Scientific American