went over

verb

Definition of went overnext
past tense of go over
as in succeeded
to turn out as planned or desired his sales pitch went over as expected and he saw a 200% increase in his commissions

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  1. succeeded
  2. went
  3. clicked
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  • The massive popular revolt against the 2021 coup, particularly among young people who had thrived during the previous decade, demonstrates that that strategy in fact succeeded, if at enormous cost, as the Myanmar military appears incapable now of reasserting its control nationwide.
    Derek Mitchell, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Could President Yoon have succeeded?
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of succeeded
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  • Those bleak years devastated the American rail industry, as revenue fell by 50 percent from 1928 to 1933, and a third of the country’s railroads went into bankruptcy.
    Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Someone won a $68 million jackpot in New York on Christmas Eve in 2002, but that prize went unclaimed.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of went
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  • Photos clicked across lenses have minimum noise and a good amount of detail for a night shot.
    Prakhar Khanna, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Every transition has clicked — a relief to NBC, no doubt, because engineering successions in morning TV is one of the genre’s most difficult feats.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of clicked
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Thesaurus Entries Near went over

went out (with)

went over

went public (with)

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