How to Use go it alone in a Sentence

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  • The hunger among Democrats for Biden to go it alone is widely shared.
    Farnoush Amiri, ajc, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Do not go it alone with internet or fill-in-the-blank forms.
    Dallas News, 5 June 2022
  • But the singer-actress, who was glowing in a hot pink outfit, didn’t go it alone.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 12 May 2023
  • Mammals that mingle live longer than species that go it alone.
    Nidhi Subbaraman, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2023
  • There are plenty of charter companies and guides in the area that can help tourists who don’t want to go it alone.
    Mike and Wendy Pramik, cleveland, 7 July 2022
  • Which is why Democrats don't want to go it alone on the debt limit suspension or increase.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Those who go it alone, or pick their partners poorly, run the risk of being left behind.
    WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
  • But her book How to Stand Up to a Dictator doesn’t suggest that anyone should go it alone.
    Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • But don’t go it alone; bounce ideas off your coach, your team and the person who almost always disagrees with you.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • After 27 fights with his father behind him, Devin Haney is prepared to go it alone June 4.
    Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
  • Still, in many situations, being able to go it alone is a clear benefit for a species.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
  • To Beijing, though, the very expansion of that capital pool may indicate that China is wealthy enough to go it alone.
    Clay Chandler, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Naperville Central junior Jacob Smetters will go it alone.
    Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • McConnell and Senate Republicans have insisted that Democrats go it alone to raise the debt ceiling.
    Kevin Freking, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2021
  • How managers can help Gen Z build their communication skills Younger employees don’t have to go it alone.
    Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 10 May 2023
  • Although both parties agree the debt limit needs raising, Republicans would rather Democrats go it alone, so as to create a spending-sized stain on midterms.
    Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Many design stores — such as Texas Paint & Wallpaper — have personal designers to help make those selections, so there’s no need to go it alone.
    Gina Mayfield, Dallas News, 1 May 2023
  • For the intrepid guests looking to go it alone, The Ranch Private will be available and offer a highly individualized program apart from the larger group.
    Michelle Gross, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • According to Governor Dan McKee’s administration, members of the board don’t want the state to go it alone in closing the $30 million gap.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022
  • That would be nice, but no single medical institution can go it alone in reforming the healthcare system.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
  • But when her companion suffered an injury, Trabucco, who did not speak German, had to go it alone, sometimes speaking to hundreds of salespeople at a time.
    Marvin Pave, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Not every successful Boston company is trying to go it alone.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Categories for individual dogs include weight-based and shredder, that is, pros that go it alone after being launched by owners.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The important emerging areas of study all reflect globalization and the fact that no country, however powerful, can go it alone.
    Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Then, too, member countries’ initial instinct was to go it alone, shutting borders and hoarding medical equipment and other supplies.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2022
  • But my truest of true reasons for continuing to go it alone is because of all the inevitable setbacks that will, undoubtedly, strengthen my resilience and confidence to keep going, to know what's possible.
    Sara Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2022
  • But Germany has since decided to go it alone, crafting a $200 billion package to cushion the impact of winter energy costs on industry and domestic consumers.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Senate Republicans have blocked all Democratic efforts to move forward on a debt ceiling suspension up this point, pressing Democrats to go it alone and raise the limit through the budget reconciliation process to get the job done.
    Phil Mattingly, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Rather than go it alone, companies should look for partnerships with startups, incubators, and universities to jumpstart their AI strategies.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Maintaining resiliency and profitability while scaling up efforts to reach net zero will be complicated, but companies do not need to go it alone.
    Bob Sternfels, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2022

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