max out
verb
maxed out; maxing out; maxes out
: to reach an upper limit or a peak
the car maxed out at 85 mph
: to push to a limit or an extreme
also
: to use up all available credit on
maxed out the credit cards
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From compact types that reach just a foot or two to types that max out at 10 to 15 feet tall, hydrangeas offer a long bloom time from mid-summer to fall.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
At launch, clips max out at 10 seconds, and users can remix videos in their feeds.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
The fee will escalate by $5 two more times through April 2028, when the extra charge per rotation maxes out at $33 per net ton, or $250 a container.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
The lucky subject here is Nvidia, which transformed overnight from a graphics card manufacturer mostly obsessed over by gamers who wanted to max out their graphics settings, to a chipmaker at the center of the artificial intelligence boom.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
At launch, clips max out at 10 seconds, and users can remix videos in their feeds.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
The fee will escalate by $5 two more times through April 2028, when the extra charge per rotation maxes out at $33 per net ton, or $250 a container.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
The lucky subject here is Nvidia, which transformed overnight from a graphics card manufacturer mostly obsessed over by gamers who wanted to max out their graphics settings, to a chipmaker at the center of the artificial intelligence boom.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Max out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/max%20out. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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