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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a gone" is not correct and usable in written English.
It appears to be an incomplete or incorrect expression, as "gone" typically functions as a past participle or adjective and does not require the article "a."
Example: "He is a gone man" would be incorrect; instead, one might say "He is gone."
Alternatives: "a lost cause" or "a thing of the past."
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–A college at Cambridge University was forced to cancel a Gone with the Wind themed dance after the students reminded the faculty that Gone with the Wind doesn't exactly have a great message about equality.
Gilead reads like something written in a gone time.
The crackheads came, but encountered the equivalent of a gone fishin' sign -- no one working.
I think he was a gone horse well before the last.
When I mentioned that I had come from London, his face registered the vivid recollection of a gone world.
A Girl in Exile is a book about a gone girl – but it is no Gone Girl.
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a. "Gone With the Wind" was independently financed.
Luke, who looks like a gone-to-seed Tintin sliding, slack and unshaven, into his 30s, is only slightly less passive than Claire, who seems to be sustained by the faltering sense of her own cuteness.
Billionaire Joe Ricketts shut down the local news websites DNAInfo and Gothamist at 5 p.m. yesterday, hanging out the internet equivalent of a gone-out-of-business sign on the front door.
It also can't help that A-Gone, despite hitting a three-run homer in his first at-bat in Dodger Blue, hasn't done a whole lot since.
How about Saturday night, after the megadeal trade news broke that morning, when the subsequent plane flight and stadium arrival of A-Gone was updated hourly like the arrival of the Pope?
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