gone bad
Example Sentences
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But for every success story, there are many tales of flips gone bad.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
Her albums are forged from the shards of relationships gone bad.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024
Yet another instance of a surge gone bad.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2023
The table is littered with scrawled notes and numbers, the detritus of hundreds of transactions gone bad, conflicts large and small, corporate and local, petty and profound.
From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022
The person who wore this had lain in the fields on still nights, when the air near the eejit pens had gone bad.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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