go down (with)

chiefly British
as in to come down (with)
to become affected with (a disease or disorder) across the United Kingdom a number of children have gone down with chicken pox this week

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  • Join us at Billboard Women in Music 2025 — get your tickets here.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The job of prioritizing selections has only gotten more complicated as interest in women’s hoops has boomed.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • Experiences Over Things In addition, luxury consumers are increasingly choosing to indulge in experiences over material goods and jewelry is caught in that crosswind too.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Over the course of his long career, magician and endurance performer David Blaine has taken on all kinds of death-defying feats: catching a bullet in his teeth, fasting for 44 days, or holding his breath for a record-breaking 17 minutes and 4 seconds, to name a few.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • No one in the U.S. has contracted bird flu from eating raw cheese, but public health experts are closely monitoring the outbreak.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2025
  • On Saturday, they were flown to El Salvador, where the U.S. has contracted a prison complex to detain them, in exchange for $20,000 per person, per year.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Go down (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go%20down%20%28with%29. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

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