average out
phrasal verb
averaged out; averaging out; averages out
: to produce a result that is even and balanced when looked at over a period of time
The irregularities averaged out over the course of the study.
Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. It all averages out in the end.
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Losing the subsidies could mean that average out-of-pocket premium payments could double in 2026, from $888 a year to $1,904, an earlier KFF analysis found.
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2025
The Red Sox led the league with 116 errors during the regular season, which averages out to 0.72 errors per game.
—Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
All of this amounts to a rounding error for the tech giants—averaged out, YouTube made more than $107 million from ad revenue every single day last quarter—but these are still acts of profound obsequiousness and corporate cowardice.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
Those numbers factor in internal and GOP-aligned polling, but internal polling is ultimately averaged out in the overall DDHQ average if there’s more than one internal poll included.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 27 Sep. 2025
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2025
The Red Sox led the league with 116 errors during the regular season, which averages out to 0.72 errors per game.
—Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
All of this amounts to a rounding error for the tech giants—averaged out, YouTube made more than $107 million from ad revenue every single day last quarter—but these are still acts of profound obsequiousness and corporate cowardice.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
Those numbers factor in internal and GOP-aligned polling, but internal polling is ultimately averaged out in the overall DDHQ average if there’s more than one internal poll included.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 27 Sep. 2025
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“Average out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average%20out. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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