live out
phrasal verb
lived out; living out; lives out
British
: to live away from the place where one works
a servant who lives out
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Yellowjackets tells the tale of a girls’ high school soccer team in the 1990s that survived a plane crash and then had to live out in the wilderness.
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
The core cast are forgettable, but the game pulls tricks from older-era Call of Duty titles like Modern Warfare and Black Ops by saddling players with alternating POVs of the events just long enough to learn someone’s name before you’re forced to live out their demise.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Miller worked seasonally in Alaska as a crab fisherman and in the mines to support his passion, but most of his time was spent living out of his Prius.
—Susan Young, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Amin was toppled in 1979, with Tanzanian help, and lived out his exile mostly in Saudi Arabia.
—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
The core cast are forgettable, but the game pulls tricks from older-era Call of Duty titles like Modern Warfare and Black Ops by saddling players with alternating POVs of the events just long enough to learn someone’s name before you’re forced to live out their demise.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Miller worked seasonally in Alaska as a crab fisherman and in the mines to support his passion, but most of his time was spent living out of his Prius.
—Susan Young, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Amin was toppled in 1979, with Tanzanian help, and lived out his exile mostly in Saudi Arabia.
—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Live out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/live%20out. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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