as (someone or something) goes

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—used to compare someone or something with someone or something else of the same kind

As lectures go, it was very interesting.

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In today’s newsletter, as goes the crypto bro, and then: Gaza, a year after October 7th Bidenomics in J. D. Vance’s back yard Can America handle another petless Presidency? —

Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

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