variants also outdoors
as in open-air
of, relating to, or held in the open air an outdoor picnic is always at the mercy of the weather, of course

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Recent Examples of outdoor Spruce up your outdoor pumpkin decor with a chic vase blossoming with fall florals. Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025 At this level, official guidance directs members of sensitive groups to avoid long or intense outdoor activities and to consider moving these indoors or rescheduling. Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025 While your calendar may not be filled with garden parties or backyard barbecues, there’s still plenty of outdoor hanging to be done in October. Shalwah Evans, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025 The restaurant does provide outdoor seating for customers, however. Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for outdoor
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  • There are open-air drug dens where fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, and methamphetamine are bought and sold like candy.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There, guests can order caviar and seafood towers at the open-air restaurant while witnessing a bit of engineering magic.
    Katherine McGrath, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Daniels stepped up to the right to avoid pressure from outside linebacker Tuli Tuipulotu and found Samuel sitting in a soft spot in the Chargers’ zone.
    Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Echoing Winter’s comment on this year’s Best New Artist field being unpredictable, the list of artists who have an outside shot at making the category’s Elite Eight is full of new and new-to-mass-audience acts.
    Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Each one features a supportive inner pillow, soft outer pillow, and a 100% cotton percale cover—plus, a down alternative filling made from polyester microfiber.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The outer soles provide ample traction, and the memory foam footbed is supportive for walking.
    Ali Faccenda, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
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  • The reversal, perhaps typical of our time, is that, whereas the Welles broadcast was a program that, heard indoors, thrust people in terror out-of-doors, our drone panic involves an outdoor occurrence that people race inside to make sense of.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
  • But as rain goes, Friday’s did not seem notably heavy, and no great determination or stout umbrella seemed needed to defy the drops and venture into the out-of-doors.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
Adjective
  • Cryptocurrency is stored in a digital wallet, which can be online, on a computer or on an external hard drive, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Formal equality was only achieved in 1971, when the Ministry of Justice authorized women to serve in external police duties, and the National Police Board ended the experimental program.
    Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Even non-outdoorsy types will like a quick trip here because there are picnic tables and a lovely waterfall to enjoy within eyeshot of the entrance parking lot.
    Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The all-American couple who were knifed to death while visiting an Arkansas state park were known as gentle, outdoorsy people devoted to their three children.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025

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“Outdoor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outdoor. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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