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
The moment Benedick declares he’ll never get married, we know he’s a goner.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 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
Mom said when she saw him like that, she thought, Uh-oh, looks like this one’s a goner, too.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
At this rate we’ll have mass hysteria before too long, and when that happens we’re all goners.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
