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peter out

verb as in dwindle, decrease

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She doesn’t want to put Basil and Peter out of work, but the environmental case is too pressing to ignore.

The Feeding of the 5,001: If Jesus had known how greedy that last guy was going to be, he’d have sent Peter out for another fish.

He sat Peter out for the rest of the activity and had a talk with him.

Yaw Ngoha was 19 and had a basic school diploma when he followed his older brother Peter out of one of Ghana’s poorest regions to Bawdie.

I couldn’t refrain from sounding Peter out on the subject, and he instantly replied that Dussel had been lying.

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