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out

[out] / aʊt /


ADVERB
outside, outdoors
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“I am immensely grateful to all of you and send my eternal love back to you. ... I hope to see your smiling faces out and about and on the road.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Isabella Reeve, a consumer insight director at Worldpanel by Numerator, says shoppers under 25 buy more cold drinks than hot when they're out of the home.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

"One by one, we also climbed out through the driver's side," then scrambled up a hill, she said.

From Barron's Aug. 29, 2026

Navy ships had fired another 150 Standard Missile interceptors to take out Iranian missiles and drones, the officials added.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Some fires are out, others are still steaming, flickering smoke.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The call outs occurred on a day when the weather, which had been forecast, was "particularly poor" but "not exceptional".

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

I got a crash course on Angeleno aesthetics and the ins and outs of the rough and tumble San Fernando Valley hurly-burly.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

“It is just three outs, but for some reason it seems to be different.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

And both runners scored when closer Tanner Scott replaced Henriquez with two outs and gave up a double to Mets pinch-hitter Tyrone Taylor.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

Mr. Ingman is showing me all the ins and outs of college applications, which I appreciate, because I have no idea what I’m doing.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

Isaiah Hodgson was outed as a Border Patrol agent last June after he was filmed, unmasked, taking part in the conroversial arrest of Adrian Martinez, a U.S. citizen accused of interfering with immigration enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2026

Nobody thinks Travis Kelce’s mother, Donna, is a terrible person despite being outed as a Traitor at the beginning of the season.

From Salon Jan. 28, 2026

The U.S. discovered that in 2003, when a team of almost two dozen agents who had abducted an Egyptian cleric in Italy for secret interrogation was outed by analysis of their local cellphone records.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

A pub quizmaster sparked a "massive whodunnit" after he outed a team for cheating on social media but refused to name them.

From BBC Nov. 11, 2025

But fate decided that my parents and I and the three wise men, as I shall call them, should meet one day on the Goubert Salai seaside esplanade and that my secret should be outed.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

Tugboat finished his outing by striking out two-time MVP Bryce Harper.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

But he was ready, and made a further six top-flight appearances before suffering a knee injury in December's defeat by Everton, which remains his last Premier League outing.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Some routinely put on a show: NYC0318, a whale also seen by AFP on a recent outing, often charms whale watchers with sensational lunge-feeds, breaching the water and prompting shrieks of delight.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

He finished his outing by getting Perez to chase a changeup below the zone and pop it up behind second base.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

He’d taken off work, made it a father-son outing.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers




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