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Go by

verb

Pass by. Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by.

Move past. Synonyms: go past, pass, pass by, surpass, travel by. "He passed his professor in the hall" , "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"

Be called; go by a certain name. Synonym: go under.

Be or act in accordance with.

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"Go by" Quotes from Famous Books

... go by, a woman in black and silver, whose walk reminded him of Jane. His hostess ...

— Nobody's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... freight, there are no passengers scheduled to pass here at this time of day," said Garry. "Shall we wait and watch it go by? That seems to be the only thing in the way of excitement that is promised for ...

— The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers • Claude A. Labelle

... no likeness whatever between the tactile ideas called extension, figure, magnitude, and motion, and the visual ideas which go by the same names; nor are any ideas ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

... very day, the Flames of Freedom began to burn in Korean hearts and souls! And from that day to this; those flames have been rising higher and higher. These are Flash-Lights of Flame that, as the years go by; mount, like beacon lights of hope on Korean hills, to light the ...

— Flash-lights from the Seven Seas • William L. Stidger

... nightly reign. If Orpheus, arm'd with his enchanting lyre, The ruthless king with pity could inspire, And from the shades below redeem his wife; If Pollux, off'ring his alternate life, Could free his brother, and can daily go By turns aloft, by turns descend below- Why name I Theseus, or his greater friend, Who trod the downward path, and upward could ascend? Not less than theirs from Jove my lineage came; My mother greater, my descent the same." So pray'd the ...

— The Aeneid • Virgil

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