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out

[out] / aʊt /


ADVERB
outside, outdoors
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Last year the Fed cut rates three times out of concern the labor market was weakening.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

We hope by the fall to be putting stuff out.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Before dropping out, Platner had begun to argue that he would champion reproductive rights in the Senate, touting an endorsement from Planned Parenthood and calling the health provider a model organization.

From Salon Jul. 14, 2026

A wave of Iranian nationalism is drowning out its diplomats.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Everyone in the town, on the road, on the wooden sidewalks, leaning out the windows from above, falls silent.

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

But he turned the game over to reliever Adrian Morejon with two runners on and no outs in the seventh.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 2026

The problem was most of those balls were on the ground, resulting in lots of routine outs instead of balls soaring toward the bleachers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

Denzer Guzman hits a tiebreaking single with two outs in the seventh inning to help lift the Angels to a 5-2 win over the Athletics.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

His perfect game bid ended two batters later, with two outs, on an error.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2026

And even though I knew the ins and outs of such hokum, I was still impressed.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

That year, Juliet Jeske — an anonymous activist who has since outed herself and become a journalist — contact Salon with dozens of clips she’d gathered from watching the entirety of the show.

From Salon Jan. 16, 2026

But he did give a quote to the Washington Post and basically outed himself as the original source.

From Slate Dec. 23, 2025

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

For the first time since ReelTok outed me, I begin to toy with the possibility that I’m not the worst person in the history of the planet.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Wrobleski’s first outing of 2026 was in relief, but the Dodgers had earmarked him as their sixth starter for the second turn in the rotation.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Cape Verde broke in the Fifa top 100 in 2006, and climbed to 36th on the back of the first Afcon outing.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

Danielle’s sister suggested a trip to Costa Rica or a paddleboard outing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

Although “Supergirl” is the revamped DC Universe’s second feature-length outing, the film plays more like a B-plot short.

From Salon Jun. 27, 2026

When I was little, anything would set me off—a dirty look, a dropped cookie, a canceled outing.

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




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