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go around

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. overshoot, wave-off, go-aroundverb

    an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt

  2. go aroundverb

    be sufficient

    "There's not enough to go around"

  3. go around, spread, circulateverb

    become widely known and passed on

    "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"

  4. outflank, go aroundverb

    go around the flank of (an opposing army)

  5. revolve, go around, rotateverb

    turn on or around an axis or a center

    "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"

  6. bypass, short-circuit, go around, get aroundverb

    avoid something unpleasant or laborious

    "You cannot bypass these rules!"

Wiktionary

  1. go aroundverb

    To spread from person to person.

  2. go aroundverb

    To share with everyone.

  3. go aroundverb

    to perform a go-around maneuver

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  1. go around

    "Go around" is a verb phrase that generally means to move or travel around a specific object, area, or obstacle instead of going through or confronting it directly. It can also refer to spreading or circulating, particularly of news or information. Additionally, it can mean to avoid an issue or circumvent a problem. Lastly, in aviation, "go around" is a procedure for aborting a landing attempt and making another approach.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of go around in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of go around in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of go around in a Sentence

  1. God's Little Instruction Book:

    Sorrow looks back... Worry looks around... But, faith looks up.

  2. Van Yahres:

    I've been looking at that crosswalk for about a year trying to figure out what I could do with it as an artist, like what if we could turn the message around in some way ?

  3. Frank Candelieri:

    I like what he's saying. We need somebody who's aggressive, no pussy-footing around. He gets right to the point. We need somebody who's going to take the damn reins and ride it.

  4. Andrew Simms:

    We know the sport at the highest level is profoundly influential on people's behaviors, the fact that they're talking about these issues around diet, around food, around putting an emphasis on using buses rather than private cars is an incredibly important signal about the kinds of behavioral change that we need to make.

  5. Lindsey Graham:

    For those who want to criticize me for lack of quarantine, realize that if the rules on testing had been followed to a tee, I would never have been tested and would still be walking around the halls of the Capitol, the current guidelines would not have called for me to get tested nor quarantined. It was my extra precaution, out of concern for my damaged lung, that led me to get tested.


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