spaced-out

The shiny-faced, spaced-out humans of 2024 have ceded their place to an expanded host of critters, letting Coke dodge the “uncanny valley” where nearly real simulations of people wind up unsettling viewers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025

The tour is in support of the band's seventh album, The Car, which builds on the lounge-y, spaced-out orchestral vibes of their previous record, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino.

From BBC ● May 29, 2023

Her projects since have added more colors to her palette, but she’s best on similarly spaced-out songs like “Euphoria,” alongside fellow Texans Travis Scott and Don Toliver.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023

It’s only two minutes long, but “Amber,” from the second half of the project, runs like a spaced-out symphony.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2022

They did not move in columns across the exposed places, but in open, spaced-out lines, oddly suggestive of the rushes of modern infantry advancing under fire.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The rules also allow small plants — from begonias to succulents — up to 18 inches tall as long as they are spaced out in groups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026

But in “Masquerade,” six cohorts of 60 audience members need to be spaced out evenly as they take in the show in a 30,000-square-foot, five-floor warehouse once occupied by an art supply company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Truthful and concerning accounts, all of them—but few and far between, spaced out over a span of years to make it seem like these are common rather than exceptional occurrences.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2025

Her first college game came in an eerily quiet setting: no fans, players spaced out on bleachers and some wearing masks to protect against the coronavirus.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

“You seemed spaced out there for a minute.”

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon