sayōnara

1. alternativeAlternative form of sayonara.

   Sayōnara, Gundam RX-78-2 giant suit.

   2016 December 2, Michelle Santos, “Sayōnara… Life-size Gundam Statue in Tokyo will be Removed Permanently”, in Ungeek, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2016

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   Okane. Please take good care of yourself (Her eyes fill with tears.) Jien. Day’s begun to break. Ryōkan. And the snow seems to have stopped. Shinran. Then sayōnara. Saemon. Sayōnara. Okane. Sayōnara. (To Matsuwaka.) Come, say sayōnara. Matsuwaka. Uncle, sayōnara. Shinran (folding Matsuwaka in the sleeve of his robe). Sayōnara. Please grow up big and great.

   1922, Kurata Hyakuzo, translated by Glenn W[illiam] Shaw, The Priest and His Disciples: A Play […], Tokyo: Hokuseido […]; Foreign Division, Kyo Bun Kwan, →OCLC, act I, scene ii, page 58

   Most of the veterans started off in the language schools, but they’d long ago said sayōnara and jumped off that one-for-you/five-for-me merry-go-round.

   1998, Jim Riva, The Geographer, United States: Soaring Sparrow Press, →ISBN, page 51

   Sayōnara from me. The Guardian’s American bureau are taking over on a brand, spanking new Day Eight blog which you can follow here.

   2021 July 31, Barry Glendenning, “Tokyo 2020 Olympics: mixed triathlon relay, athletics blasts off and more – as it happened”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2021

   Population of world’s most populous city fell in 2021 for first time in more than 25 years, thanks in part to the pandemic

   2022 March 14, Justin McCurry, “Why are Tokyo residents saying sayōnara to Japan’s capital?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2022

plural sayōnaras

1. alternativeAlternative form of sayonara.

   The door handle clacked against its stop twice. High time for his sayōnara.

   2023, Wolf O'Rourc, “Essential Go”, in CyberFurry: An Interactive Coming of Age Action Thriller Novel, Las Vegas, Nev.: RoRo, →ISBN

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   Here, I thought, was a team in last place, thirty-six games out of first place, which had lost two games out of every three for more than six months—yet still its faithful were rising to give it this heartfelt show of support. Sayōnaras were hosannas here.

   1991, Pico Iyer, “Autumn”, in The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto, London: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, chapter 8, page 73

   Four chocolate bars and seven packages of chewing gum changed hands and then with a flurry of waves and “Sayōnaras” we were off.

   2006, Marion Taylor, “Good Samaritans”, in American Geisha, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2013, →DOI, →ISBN

   I'm behind the trigger, what if I am the target? / Deep sigh, a sayōnara, I ain't afraid to die / It's either goodbye or good mornin’, and the skies start to fallin’

   2018 December 14, Lil Wayne, Sam Martin, XXXTentacion, Infamous, Eskeerdo, “Scared of the Dark”, in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, New York, N.Y.: Republic Records, →OCLC