smoke out
Example Sentences
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“Rather than treating disparate impact as an evidentiary mechanism to smoke out intentional discrimination,” the EEOC’s historical approach contemplates “liability based on disproportionately adverse effects alone,” the OLC opinion explains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Its access to Fannie and Freddie’s mortgage databases is supposed to be used to keep the housing finance system stable and fair, not to smoke out individual cases of mortgage fraud.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2025
Police and firefighters fenced off the area and a beekeeper was called in to smoke out the bees - a safe way to calm the insects.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
Near the coast, the Palisades fire chewed through the Santa Monica Mountains and reduced dream houses with Pacific views to their foundations, sending a jetstream of smoke out to the ocean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
So, under a blanket of starry skies and piñon smoke, out of habit, she whispered her stories to me in Spanglish.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
