fink out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fink out
Verb
  • Plus, the captain tells Lo that the passenger assigned to cabin 10 backed out days before departure.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But the ocean spits her back out.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And more than anything, more than the animosity between the programs, more than the College Football Playoff impact, more than Notre Dame puffing its chest out as USC backed down, that familiarity was the real higher power at work.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The administration only backed down after both Democrats and Republicans criticized the move.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But seeing Scherzer grow animated as Schneider approached, shortstop Andrés Giménez backed off.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Despite increasingly menacing warnings to back off and stop prying into the lives of rich power players thorny about their privacy, Lo remains determined to get to the truth.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • How did one moped — perhaps a light-bodied Eighties-era Mobylette, which Le Grand recalls seeing in the young men’s apartment — carry two adult men and a 300-pound marble bust through the streets of Paris?
    David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • See full list of shrimp items recalled What should consumers do?
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Fink out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fink%20out. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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