out for

idiom

: to be determined to get
He was out for revenge.

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Though the restaurant is already atmospheric, all the stars’ photos on the wall had to be swapped out for images that were cleared. Pat Saperstein, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025 Hold your breath out for another second and a half. Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2025 Offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury has an array of GT Counter runs in his bag and pulled one out for Croskey-Merritt. Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025 And Dart duped a defender to press down to the flat to open up the middle out for a strike completion to Ihmir Smith-Marsette. Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for out for

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“Out for.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/out%20for. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.

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