goner
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Now, he’s a goner, delivering Sir Keir Starmer a headache rather than a handshake.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024
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
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
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
Photographer Peter Mitchell went about photographing these "goners" before the bulldozers removed every trace of them.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2019
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
