never to return

idiom

—used to say that someone never went back to a place
She left home never to return.

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If your cousin embarked on a transcontinental ocean voyage only never to return, your perception of such a trip’s risk would have been swayed. — Allie Volpe, Vox, 3 Apr. 2025 Other, older patrons he’s seen die off, never to return for the beer he’s left for them on the bartop out of respect. — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2025

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“Never to return.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/never%20to%20return. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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