as in to out
to drive or force out
the theater manager booted out the audience members who were making a disturbance
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Media outlets subsequently outed him as gay, which led to mental health difficulties and harassment of Sipple's family.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025 -
Bezos and de Becker's claims came in response to a story by The National Enquirer that shared personal text messages between Sánchez and Bezos, outing their relationship.—
Alexia Fernández,
People.com,
27 June 2025
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Home plate umpire Ramon De Jesus called strike three on Rockies outfielder Tyler Freeman, and he immediately got ejected after arguing the call.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
29 June 2025
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Until 2006, patent holders could presumptively obtain a court injunction that ordered infringers to stop using their invention (akin to a landowner’s legal right to eject trespassers camping on their property).—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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In a series of tweets, Charli XCX dismissed the controversy and defended her creative choices.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
30 June 2025
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The decision dismissed most claims in the lawsuit filed by authors who alleged that their books were used, without permission, to train Anthropic’s Claude AI models.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Meyer captured the ancient light cast out by the Lagoon and Trifid Nebula over 34 hours in May 2025, while observing under the near-pristine dark skies of Arizona, a little north of Ash Fork.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
13 June 2025
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Lower down the ballot, in a sweeping show of dissatisfaction, voters cast out more than two dozen Democratic state lawmakers.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
13 June 2025
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The hydraulic anti-roll can get slightly upset on bumpy roads, however, as a friend chasing me on a liter bike noted on a Malibu pullout.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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In the beginning, the campaign had to chase local television to get much press.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
30 June 2025
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Vera, the daughter of a Russian father and Korean mother, may be banished to second-class citizenry.—
Mark Athitakis,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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During those frenzied years in the 1960s and 1970s, authorities banished Xi from the capital and subjected him to solitary confinement and physical abuse.—
JOSEPH TORIGIAN,
Foreign Affairs,
23 June 2025
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The gunman who mistakenly shot her ran off and is being sought.—
Rebecca White,
New York Daily News,
30 June 2025
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Trees and shrubs enable water to be stored in soil, instead of rapidly running off and floods.—
Jim Martin,
Denver Post,
27 June 2025
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The next day, the complaint said, he was kicked out of the bar again and again fired shots, both at the bar and toward a group of people.—
Sophie Carson,
jsonline.com,
3 July 2025
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He was put on a two-year probation by the Grand Slam Board in 2017 after insulting a female chair umpire at the U.S. Open and getting kicked out of that tournament.—
Howard Fendrich,
Baltimore Sun,
30 June 2025
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“Boot (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boot%20%28out%29. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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