This old computer is a goner. We'll have to get a new one.
Recent Examples on the WebIn 2000, around 22 years after the last official sighting, scientists deemed Miss Waldron’s red colobus (named for a member of the expedition that discovered it in 1933) a goner.—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024 WRs Keenan Allen and Mike Williams both have durability issues and 2024 cap hits exceeding $30 million, each entering the final year of his contract – meaning both could be goners ahead of schedule.—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024 This incoming family knows nothing of that, but already, their housecat, Cider, feels like a goner.—Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024 That one complex is a goner.—Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2021 The famed LuAnn Platter may be a goner.—Amanda Drane, ExpressNews.com, 8 Sep. 2020 Written off last month as all but a goner, La Niña — El Niño's cool opposite — now seems to be stirring again in the Pacific, albeit weakly.—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2016 The game was a goner.—Staff Writer
follow, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023 The sheriff appeared to be a goner.—oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2021
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