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go by
— phrasal verb with go /ɡəʊ/
/ɡoʊ/ verb (present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone)Definition
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B2 to move past, in space or time: You can watch the trains going by from this window. You can't let an opportunity like that go by - it's too good to miss. Hardly a day goes by when I don't think about her.General words for movementSpending time and time passing in days gone by › in the past: The house was a railway station in days gone by.In the past
(Definition of go by from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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