bailed out

past tense of bail out

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of bailed out Cornerbacks Rodrick Pleasant and Scooter Jackson appeared to get beat on multiple routes downfield, but they were bailed out by poor throws or receivers dropping passes. Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Bill Croskey-Merritt and rookie Kaytron Allen had good interior runs (and BCM was bailed out when Conerly recovered his fumble on the last drive, at the Eagles’ 19), as Washington averaged better than 4 yards a carry against the Eagles’ stout front. David Aldridge, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Becerra is being held in the West Contra Costa Detention Facility and cannot be bailed out, records show. Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2026 On the new Kildare, Kooks largely bailed out, Pogues moved in, Pope and Cleo settled into his ancestral home, Tannyhill, and Topper is a bartender. Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2026 Oyarzabal’s form in recent knockout matches, though, hasn’t been great and Spain has twice been bailed out by late goals from make-shift forward Mikel Merino. Ben Church, CNN Money, 14 July 2026 While Ram killed its electric truck before even launching it, Ford bailed out on the F-150 Lighting, GM’s stuck with things, for now. Joel Feder, The Drive, 9 July 2026 Niemiec bailed out of jail on Monday after posting a $4,000 bond. Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026 Hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management was bailed out in 1998. Marty Steinberg, CNBC, 22 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bailed out
Verb
  • That was enough for Misiorowski, who exited after throwing 82 pitches — 43 at 100 mph or more — to strengthen his grasp on his first Cy Young Award.
    CBS News, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Jackson Hospital exited Chapter 11 this week after reaching a four-year agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama.
    Adam Beam, AJC.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Schiano rescued the program from irrelevance, but modest respectability might be all Rutgers can afford this season — if that.
    Manny Navarro, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Images of the man and woman being rescued were posted by Nepal’s Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers on Saturday, confirming the rescues.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Michigan was 80 yards from the end zone with 10 seconds remaining and hadn’t moved the ball at all since its first drive.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Had moved from my very small town in northern Va to the big city of Richmond to begin my new career as a management trainee with a local bank at the princely sum of $11,000 per year at age 22.
    Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Companies and health systems that treat ambient documentation as a pure software problem (deploy it, minimize edits and measure only time saved) are more likely to discover the limits the hard way.
    Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Factor in a five-year survival rate of just under 30% for the disease a decent number of lives could be saved in the UK alone by blowing on one’s cup of English Breakfast.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The show’s cast from last season will largely return, save for Bowen Yang, who left SNL midway through last season, and Chloe Fineman, who departed over the summer.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Tariq departed the following year over production delays, and Ali confirmed in July that the project was officially dead.
    Marlow Stern, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But Jon Hamm, strolling up to present the next award, got the better joke in.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Maresca’s players followed soon after; Iliman Ndiaye, an inspired half-time substitute, was hanging around at the back of the group when Ruben Dias grabbed him and thrust him to the front, ensuring the new signing got a deserved ovation.
    Sam Lee, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • For months, boisterous fellows at Angels Stadium peeled off their shirts and begged Moreno to sell.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Many of the spines had peeled off, and Nidhi could see the string and glue that held the pages together.
    Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Even the odd chance to counter-attack went badly wrong — summed up by the sight of Ouattara almost knocking over team-mate Mikkel Damsgaard with a wayward pass.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • After that, Brown went silent, not answering any of Redding’s phone calls or text messages.
    Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026

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