goner
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"The whole family basically thought I was a goner," he wrote.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
If he’d stayed any longer at the shelter, he would have been a goner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
Then when the camera lingered on his departure from Dragonstone, until the little boy on his little dragon faded into the night, I was sure he was a goner.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2022
The most recent goner, who gives the book its title, was an investigative journalist.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2022
I don’t know how a person can resist fried foods, because I’m a goner every time I catch a whiff of them.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
Some assumed the fish left behind were goners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
But once services such as YouTube, Twitter and Instagram came for us, we were goners.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2023
When Polkinghorne went out to check on her incubated emu eggs after the spring storm caused a power outage, she thought all the unhatched chicks were goners.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
"When I was in Vietnam, as long as that flag was flying, we were fighting. If there was no flag up there, we were goners, so yea, it means a lot to me."
From Fox News ● Sep. 23, 2021
If a supernova explosion happened within five hundred light-years of us, we would be goners, according to Evans–"it would wreck the show," as he cheerfully puts it.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
