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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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... the innocent Willies who look as if all they could do was to lead the cotillon and wear bangles on their ankles. I've had a lot to do with them, and it's up to a man that don't want to be stung not to go by what ...

— The Gem Collector • P. G. Wodehouse

... his head his old wool cap and thrust it under his arm, while with the other he twirled a huge brass watchkey, which hung suspended from his pocket. (He had the day before traded off an old jack knife, two puppies, and a cracked fiddle, for a brass watch which would only go by shaking.) ...

— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes

... stop," Claire wailed plaintively. "I've been waiting for ages. The car'll go by! You ...

— Martha By-the-Day • Julie M. Lippmann

... of your very kind invitation so far as to go to Manila if there were a line of steamers between that port and Saigon. But I should have to go by the way of Singapore. With your permission, I will go down the river ...

— Four Young Explorers - Sight-Seeing in the Tropics • Oliver Optic

... lied about it than that it happened. And why? Because, according to human experience, we know that people will not always tell the truth, and we never saw a miracle, and we have got to be governed by our experience, and if we go by our experience, it is in favor that the thing never happened; that the man is mistaken. Now, I want you to remember it. Here is a man that comes into Jerusalem, and the first thing he does he cures the blind. He lets the light of day visit the darkness of blindness. The eyes are opened and the ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll

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