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Go by

verb

Pass by. Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by.

Move past. Synonyms: go past, pass, pass by, surpass, travel by. "He passed his professor in the hall" , "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"

Be called; go by a certain name. Synonym: go under.

Be or act in accordance with.

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... England—has for a number of years been well provided with railways; and you may go by locomotion towards its frontiers in all directions, except one—namely, that of Holland. This odd exception, of course, arose from the ill-will that has subsisted for a number of years between the Belgians and Dutch; the latter being not at all pleased with the violent disjunction ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 - Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 • Various

... question demanding an answer. The men might have let the princess go by, but there would have been questions urgently demanding answers had she been seen ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... go by, and upon the shoulders of Bove Derg and Lir fell the long white hair. Fearful grew the four swans, for the time was not far off, when they must wing their flight north to the wild sea ...

— Celtic Tales - Told to the Children • Louey Chisholm

... satisfied with the house. I will go by this evening and find out about it, so as to let you know at once. Have you any idea when the 'board' ...

— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans

... knew nothing more. Occupied in doing errands for some South American ladies, he had been unable to say good-bye to the young man when he left the hotel, undecided whether to make the trip in an English steamer to Marseilles or to go by railroad to Genoa, where he would find boats ...

— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

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