bailed

verb

past tense of bail
as in exited
to leave a place often for another after two hours of that boring party, we were ready to bail

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Recent Examples of bailed In other words, nearly half of America’s crypto investors have bailed. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 26 July 2026 And in a sign that all may truly be forgiven, ESPN reported that not long after Kiffin bailed for Baton Rouge Golding bought his house in Oxford. — ABC News, 22 July 2026 Fortunately for the All-Star forward, her teammates bailed her out. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026 Nissan’s deepest crisis yet Nissan, founded in 1933, is emerging from its lowest point since at least 1999, when French carmaker Renault bailed it out, and perhaps at any point in its 92-year-long history. — Andrew Staples, Fortune, 3 July 2026 But his former Milan team-mate, Mike Maignan, bailed him out with a trademark stop. — James Horncastle, New York Times, 26 June 2026 Wilson said both his riders bailed from the car before making it to the dropoff area. — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026 The driver of the Cadillac bailed and ran off. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 10 June 2026 Wembanyama bailed the Knicks out. — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 7 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bailed
  1. exited
  2. moved
  3. departed
  4. got
  5. went
  6. started
  7. escaped
  8. fled
Verb
  • Officers said two people reportedly met at a nearby shopping center, but the suspect at some point exited the truck and shot the victim at point-blank range.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Martin exited after the first two batters reached in the sixth.
    — LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of exited
Verb
  • Punk went for a moonsault, which looked sloppy, and Rhodes moved, mostly avoiding the impact.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The Moon moved into Aries and your private 12th House, making quiet more useful than consensus.
    — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of moved
Verb
  • Mara Sade, formerly Jakara Jackson in WWE, has officially departed TNA as a free agent following her contract's expiration on August 3rd.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Over a year after most DOGE members departed the government, independent auditors still cannot pinpoint who all the DOGE personnel were.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of departed
Verb
  • Snail Mucin When K-beauty broke into the US market in 2016, snail mucin was the introductory ingredient that got everyone hooked.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2026
  • On Monday, Baltimore went and got Forret back by trading reliever Tyler Wells to the Rays.
    — David Brandt, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of got
Verb
  • Tommy Edman hit a three-run home run for the Dodgers, and Teoscar Hernández also went deep.
    — Jay Cohen, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The ceremony ultimately went ahead with an Elvis impersonator officiating as Kacie wore a white dress and white cowboy hat.
    — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of went
Verb
  • At the time, TMZ reported that the fight started when the other inmate, whose identity was not made public, insulted the rapper.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
  • In July the preferred stock started working the other way, and coins became dividend payments.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of started
Verb
  • Rhodes escaped and shoved Punk shoulder-first into the steel ring steps.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Flaco, who lived in the Central Park Zoo for 13 years, escaped when someone cut the wire mesh on his cage.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of escaped
Verb
  • The suspects then fled toward Chelmsford Street, according to police.
    — Tammy Mutasa, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • Investors aware of this fled these precious-metals funds before the new year in a (successful) bid to avoid the losses in the chart above.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of fled

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