bailed out

past tense of bail out

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of bailed out While her friends remain locked up, Jenner is ultimately bailed out by momager Kris Jenner in a car that once again has a KNGKYLIE plate and a glove compartment stocked with Kylie Cosmetics products. Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025 Last year, the Horned Frogs were bailed out by the emergence of Savion Williams as a wildcat quarterback/running back, but Williams was one of the best athletes in the country and was selected in the third round of the 2025 NFL draft. Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2025 Milan wished to push ahead again, but Inter couldn’t — their former owners, Suning, bailed out and on the brink at home in China. James Horncastle, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025 Both men were bailed out of jail, Fitzpatrick's office said. Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025 In 1998, hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management was bailed out after its highly leveraged bets on bond arbitrage went belly up after the Russian debt default. Alex Pron, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 He was bailed out of jail sometime Monday, online jail records showed. Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 3 Sep. 2025 They were bailed out with taxpayer funds, and the Department of Treasury received preferred shares in return, which paid billions of dollars in dividends over the years. Andrea Shalal, Reuters, 8 Aug. 2025 But in Hollywood the more apt analogy might be to Brad Pitt’s World War Z, a movie Ellison’s money bailed out after its budget ballooned and an explosive climactic scene shot in Budapest (for Red Square) was deemed, in technical industry parlance, bad. Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bailed out
Verb
  • Mike Evans and Chris Godwin were inactive, while Emeka Egbuka exited with a hamstring injury and did not return.
    Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Mean Girls star exited the series in 2006, leaving Poehler and the Late Night host with two additional years together before Poehler left in 2008.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The video, captured in Philadelphia, shows Roger calmly receiving affection on a sofa, signaling a stark contrast to the conditions he was rescued from.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • After being rescued over the summer, Xiao Mao is reportedly on the road to recovery.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Until Riley Moss drew the pass-interference call of all pass-interference calls, a flag that moved New York from the 40-yard line to the 1.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • To measure the centre of gravity of the submarine, 16 tonnes of lead weights are brought on board and moved side-to-side.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Experience might have saved him from this episode.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
  • At the same time, the fact that 20 hostages' lives that were saved must be celebrated, Alter said.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The fort once protected Calliaqua Bay, where ships loaded with sugar departed for England during colonial times.
    Essence, Essence, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The Senate departed for the weekend on Thursday following a 10th failed vote on the clean GOP measure, and the House has been on recess for the past four weeks in a bid to pressure Democrats to accept that bill.
    Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Dodgers got past the Phillies without their bats ever really coming to life.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Went through the progression as normal and got two negative plays in a row after the screen.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This culminated in Malen’s first goal, with Boubacar Kamara playing an exceptional through ball into the Netherlands international’s path, having peeled off Burnley centre-back Maxime Esteve.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Yungblud joined the pair at the front of the stage for the final chorus while Perry peeled off a solo.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Their opening eight possessions featured six punts, a turnover on downs at the end of their lone productive drive and an aborted drive that went backwards in the final 64 seconds of the first half.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Bethune actually departed for one series for reasons that went unexplained, with Curtis Robinson taking over, but was back after a few plays as the defensive play-caller.
    Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Bailed out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bailed%20out. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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