washout

Example Sentences

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Each participant completed two separate 28-day diet periods with a 28-day washout period in between.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Sri Lanka were left on the brink after being blasted out for 95 against England to lose by 51 runs a day after New Zealand and Pakistan took a point each from a washout.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

Scotland face a washout of a Six Nations campaign after suffering a dispiriting opening loss to Italy in rain-soaked Rome.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

Both bitcoin and ether have stabilized since Saturday’s sudden washout.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

Grandpa stared at the washout and then at the dead Ford.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns