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outing

noun as in short trip

noun as in politically motivated exposure of another's secrets

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The girls from Swanburne had been taken there on an outing and set loose in the maze; they raced this way and that, amid much delighted squealing.

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“The children are much too tired for another outing. I dare not leave them again, and in any case, they have not yet finished their essays on the causes and consequences of the Peloponnesian War.”

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He had a sack and pressured Goff six times in a stellar outing.

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Many readers will be grateful that Mr. Boyd has brought back his reluctant spy and accidental hero for a second outing.

Having faced 37 shots in two games at Hampden against Greece and Belarus, it is clear Scotland have been exposed in recent outings.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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