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  • Stanley, who’s also known as Starchild, and the Corvette go way back.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Galbreath and Matthys, who will pitch against Southridge in the state final, go way back.
    — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2021
  • Heide had no idea at the time, but their parents go way back.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian West go way back — like, to the early 2000s.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Lucy Hale and her blunt bob go way back — all the way to elementary school, in fact.
    — Sara Miranda, Allure, 10 Mar. 2022
  • And people feel supportive and a lot of Clevelanders go way back with the band.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The Murder Mystery stars go way back — and their friendship runs deep.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The two men go way back and stayed in touch even when relations between the two countries were frozen.
    — Sha Hua, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Dogs as tools of oppression go way back in this country.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2022
  • As a pairing, fruit preserves and fatty meats go way back.
    — Eric Kim, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Probably a good way to start off with talking about that scene is to say that Imelda Staunton and I go way back.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Among modern music’s pop divas, Pink and Spears go way back.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Winston and Styles go way back to the musician's boy-band days in One Direction.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Some of the other homes also go way back; two of them were originally built in the 1860s and had to be updated.
    — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Napier and Smart go way back, both of them growing up as sons of high school football coaches in Georgia.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The two actors go way back, having met in the '70s as castmates at Toronto's branch of the Second City improv theater.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein go way back, and the actor is reminiscing about their years of friendship.
    — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Scientists have yet to stamp a date on when this happened, but nervous systems go way back.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 16 June 2023
  • Just bear in mind that the ultimate motives for homicide often go way back into the past, even to childhood.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
  • And while their public appearances together are rare, Swift and Sasha Fierce go way back.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Their recent attacks on sailing yachts have made news, but our encounters with the predators go way back.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Money and commerce are not as old as humanity since Adam and Eve lived off the land, but both go way back together.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Frito-Lay and PediPlace, which offers health care for children in low-income or uninsured families, go way back.
    — Dallas News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Her father, Paul Sansone Jr., has also confirmed that the two families go way back.
    — Kelsey Lentz, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Blomstrann and Waters go way back, playing against each other in indoor leagues and coaching against each other in high school.
    — Lori Riley, courant.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Gilfry and Fleming go way back to the beginning of their respective careers.
    — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Bremont and Matthew Vaughn go way back, having collaborated in 2014 on the first Kingsman film.
    — Nancy Olson, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But Bright and Stitch go way back — even further than the little blue monster’s cinematic debut.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The businesses that form Cassava Technologies go way back to 2004.
    — Carlos Mureithi, Quartz, 5 May 2022
  • Harbaugh and Norvell go way back, facing each other as players, becoming NFL teammates and coaching together in the league.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 3 Sep. 2022

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