Go by

I like to sit and watch the world go by. The rest of the day went by quickly.

His full name is Ernest Tinkleton, but he goes by Ernie.

I go by they/them pronouns.

I'm only going by what my teacher said.

a good rule to go by

The uncared-for external appearance of the tanks is nothing to go by, for the glass-lined tanks are kept in perfect condition.

Martin says Rhymes with Reason is still in the testing phase. It's used in only a handful of classes, and he doesn't yet have reliable data to show that it actually improves test scores or vocabulary. ¶ But if the kids in Eddie Moyé's eighth-grade class are anything to go by, Austin Martin is on to something.

Or perhaps we will sink back into our culture of complacent exceptionalism and await the next plague that will surely arrive. To go by recent history, that moment will come sooner than we think.