bailed out

past tense of bail out

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of bailed out 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 The offense was bad last year (14th in the SEC in yards per play), and the defense bailed out the Sooners in some key games with defensive touchdowns. Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026 He cannot be bailed out of jail, per an order signed by Judge Rozlynn Silvaggio, records show. Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 11 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 The scientists intended their distribution of the article implicitly as a counterweight to a keynote talk by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who was going to speak without taking questions but who bailed out at the last minute. Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bailed out
Verb
  • Legendary photographer Arthur Edwards was waiting to snap a photo as Jerry exited customs.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
  • All six people on board, including the two pilots, safely exited the aircraft.
    Denis Akbari, USA Today, 2 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
  • Instead of traditional quality metrics, the focus shifts to better decisions, time saved, risks avoided and revenue created.
    Kevin Campbell, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Amazon estimates advertisers saved more than $8 billion from 2021 through 2025 because its auction system considers ad relevance instead of simply selecting the highest bidder.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • After Barbera and Gyllenhaal departed, their spot at the podium was filled by George Clooney, this year’s recipient of the honorary Golden Lion.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Earlier this year, a senior curator departed the AGO after reports that the museum had rejected a plan to acquire a work by Nan Goldin because the artist had described Israel’s war in Gaza as a genocide.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The rationale being that Frank Lampard got his tactics spot on at the Etihad and on another day – a day when Coventry were more decisive in front of goal – their head coach would have been celebrating an unlikely result.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The Niners left California last Wednesday, arrived in Australia on Friday and were set for their first practice of game week on Monday at AAMI Park in Melbourne feeling mostly refreshed after players got a day to explore the city.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 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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