bails 1 of 2

noun

plural of bail
1
as in bonds

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2
as in bows

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3
as in hods

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bails

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of bail
as in exits
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 bails
Verb
Brandon nearly bails, but decides to stay after an emotional phone call with his mother. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026 Hopefully, your customer lifetime value bails you out in the form of repeat orders, subscriptions, upsells and referrals. — Bar Maimon, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026 When all four girls are arrested for drug use, a local drug dealer (Franco) bails them out and subsequently draws them into a gang turf war. — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026 Crook bails from the interaction too early to find out, but the question will torment him all weekend. — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 27 June 2026 Ebra, who apparently graduated from the Richie Jerimovich Institute for Asking for Shit at the Wrong Time, bails on his plans to discuss the future of the Beef with Carmy. — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 June 2026 When Bridget bails on her wedding and runs off to the island, Lucy follows, leading her right back to Felix. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026 Is there a world where Porsche bails on selling the 718 variants but still builds Audi a car? — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 19 Feb. 2026 Or the babysitter bails last minute. — Jenny McCoy, Outside, 3 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bails
  1. bonds
  2. bows
  3. tanks
  4. exits
  5. gages
  6. loops
  7. jugs
  8. moves
Noun
  • This return meant there was nothing new for Vicki to engage with, no new bonds to forge, no new stories to find.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The stadium and a new training facility in Olathe will be funded through the state’s bonding program called sales tax and revenue (STAR) bonds, which stretch across a two-county district.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of bonds
Noun
  • Wicker‘s start bested the UK bows of Poor Things, Sense & Sensibility and The Shape of Water.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Clean, conservative, and accented with tulle, silk bows, and lace appliqués, these gowns feel like a surprising pivot in bridal fashion, which has grown more avant-garde in recent years with the rise of the anti-bride.
    — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of bows
Noun
  • In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.
    — Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.
    — Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
Definition of tanks
Verb
  • Her chances at having a baby only seemed to worsen in 2014, when a colorectal surgeon attempted to reposition her stoma — an opening in the abdomen through which waste exits the body — to make pregnancy possible, but the surgery was unsuccessful.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2026
  • The werewolf’s victims reappear in hallucinations completely drenched in blood, while the hugely likable Griffin Dunne exits in spectacular fashion, totally ripped to shreds.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of exits
Noun
  • Scientists also revealed that special interface gages verify the form, fit and function of missile parts down to tolerances in the millionths of an inch.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The analysis tracked all the instances in which the gages reached a daily average height at or above flooding levels since the year 2000.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
Definition of gages
Noun
  • Reflecting this, flight paths show the aircraft made two loops to burn fuel before returning to land at LAS, per FlightAware.
    — Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The first includes backing tracks to jam along to, while the other has drum loops for sampling.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of loops
Noun
  • The shed behind his home is practically a science lab, full of jugs and evaporators and gallons of sap.
    — Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Two common types of plastic — polyethylene and polypropylene, used widely to make food containers, packaging, milk jugs and bottle caps — produced the most hydroxyl radicals detected by the researchers.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of jugs
Verb
  • As part of its process, the powered gimbal moves the image around in the general direction the projector's already facing, stopping the movement several times in the process before continuing, and adjusting the image size several times as well.
    — M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Flight testing moves forward L3Harris has reached the second phase of the Army’s Xtended Range Counter-sUAS Missile program.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of moves

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