GOES OVER Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

goes over

verb

present tense third-person singular of go over

as in succeeds

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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Recent Examples of goes over However, the show goes over Tamra’s 40 years as a parent and shows images of her kids throughout the years, including a brief glimpse of her daughter Sydney as a youngster. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 July 2026 How much do fans really care if a guy or girl goes over? — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026 The tall mules are held in place by a wide toe strap that goes over the vamp creating an open, peep toe-like design. — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 4 May 2026 Jett goes over his handle bars and gets pinned by bike. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026 When the ball goes over the end lines, the border lines parallel to both goals (think the back of the end zone in American football), players take a corner kick. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 25 Apr. 2026 After dragging Newport from right to left and back to the right again, holding midfielder Ashley Charles goes over the top to find Ilunga on the right. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026 On-ear headphones are larger and sit on a solid band that goes over your head with padded earpieces that sit on top of your ears. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026 Speeding tickets range from $50 to $500, depending on how many miles the driver goes over the speed limit. — Sooji Nam, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for goes over

Verb

Christopher argued the race matters not only because of who succeeds Pelosi, but as a sign of what vision of the Democratic Party that person represents.

— Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026
If your technology succeeds at scale, can your manufacturing scale with it while maintaining quality?

— Dennis Calvert, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of succeeds

Verb

On July 12, Fable 5 comes off subscription plans and moves to prepaid usage credits at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
And then, there’s the leader, who breaks down just about every huddle when the team comes off the field and prepares to bat.

— Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 25 May 2026

Definition of comes off

Verb

Spread across 339 nodes, the $242,624 paid since December works out at roughly $715 each.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Let’s say this works out, recognizing that a couple of impressive days at training camp are a really long road shy of that sentence being true.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026