out to

idiom

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

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Even after adding the likes of Garrett Crochet, Walker Buehler and Alex Bregman this past winter, the Red Sox have limped out to a losing record to start the season. Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025 Kris Van Assche is out to make flower arranging more modern, more poetic — and a little disruptive. Miles Socha, Footwear News, 17 May 2025 As massive waves battered the ship to pieces, an Indigenous Australian man on land attempted to swim a rope out to the ship to save the captain but just couldn’t make it in the surge, Hunter recounted. Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 16 May 2025 Jacob Garmon, director of safety for Carolinas AGC, a large industry trade group, said that most large contractors have Spanish-speaking employees who are able to get safety information out to Hispanic employees. Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for out to

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“Out to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/out%20to. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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