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• There are welds and bolts that can all go bad over time.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• Contact with air can make the fats in food go bad over time.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
• Things go bad in a hurry, and a lot of reporters on the Auburn beat still have the hats to prove it.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 28 Feb. 2023
• This is a pattern for Smart, boiling over when things go bad.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• And, keep in mind that flaxseed is a fresh food, and all fresh foods can eventually go bad.
  — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2024
• This is the capital of the low-wage jobs, and when things go bad people just have no safety net.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• There are two ways your ground beef can go bad – bacteria or spoilage.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
• For starters: Boxed wines stay fresh for up to six weeks, while an open bottle will go bad after one.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 July 2022
• In times like these, even good people can end up in desperate straits when things go bad.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2023
• These are common in body washes due to the high water content, which can cause products to go bad.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 June 2022
• What's scary for people is not that things go bad and relationships ends.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• Exits plans usually include when to get out if things go bad, if thing go well, or if things go okay.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• Apparently teeth under bridges go bad all the time, for all kinds of reasons.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2021
• So how could this guy go bad on his planet, and is that possible on our possible?
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• Now that the wheat harvest starts at the end of this month, more storage space is needed, and if more room isn’t made soon, a lot of grain could go bad while tens of millions starve around the world.
  — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Banks can be forced to take losses if an economic downturn causes those loans to go bad.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
• My parents, meanwhile, who grew up in times of war and scarcity, placed their trust in foods engineered to never go bad.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2022
• Fuel and batteries can go bad over the colder months, and grass clippings left on or underneath the deck can cause rust.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2021
• Rayner Loi keeps a note on his iPhone with details of the fruit and vegetables that go bad every week at his home in Singapore.
  — Amy Gunia, Time, 13 Oct. 2021
• All these choices are very unpleasant when pension plans go bad.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
• Capo Creek doesn’t have a generator, so the refrigerated and frozen items Roy planned to serve at the restaurant this week will go bad.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
• Spills and spoiled food can leave behind mold spores or encourage the growth of bacteria, making other food go bad as well.
  — Washington Post, 26 July 2021
• Rice varieties that have more fiber and oils, such as brown rice, go bad quicker (about 6 to 8 months) than white, jasmine, basmati, and arborio rice (about 4 years).
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2021
• Over time, foods that have been sitting in your fridge can go bad without necessarily posing a health threat.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 24 Jan. 2023
• And yet flaws, too, are part of a soap opera’s contract with its viewer—the understanding that an onscreen product can go bad for a minute and then snap back into its sweet spot.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• Yet these same wines can go bad rather quickly, taking on distinctly displeasing notes of rotten eggs or dirty socks.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024
• Things naturally go bad fast, and the show alternates between their current-day lives and their ordeal.
  — PCMAG, 4 Jan. 2022
• When seemingly good wars go bad, Americans often conclude that those wars were pointless or corrupt from the get-go.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
• Reasons have expiration dates, and good reasons go bad.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• According to the report, even if a storage structure appears to be mostly intact, even minor damage can make crops go bad.
  — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024