as in to examine
to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)
check out the house and let me know if you think it's worth buying
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as in to die
to stop living
there are a lot of sights around the world that I want to see before I check out
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as in test-drive
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Recent Examples of checkout
Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2025
Be sure to apply the 15 percent off coupon at checkout to reduce the price of the matching set to $40.
—Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2025
Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Meat lovers; anyone who wants to check out the steakhouse that took Fort Lauderdale by storm.
—Constance Ogle, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
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Verb
Learn how the City of San Diego’s ordinance protects shopper’s right to fair pricing at the checkout line.
—Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2025
Be sure to apply the 15 percent off coupon at checkout to reduce the price of the matching set to $40.
—Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2025
Noun
Stargazers hoping to capture a Perseid should check out our guide to photographing meteor showers and would do well to pick up Josh Dury's book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', which provides practical advice on how to image the night sky.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Meat lovers; anyone who wants to check out the steakhouse that took Fort Lauderdale by storm.
—Constance Ogle, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for checkout
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The easiest way to find out is to buy some compatible photo paper and give your all-in-one printer a trial run.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Aug. 2025
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Their unlikely bond is, in some ways, a trial run for what Giamatti would pull off more than a decade later with The Holdovers, but Win Win is a sweet, touching, and bitterly funny movie about failures and second chances.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
25 July 2025
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Cold Atom Lab — Yui, working inside NASA's Destiny Laboratory, swapped out computer components for this apparatus which lowers atoms below the mean temperature of the universe, enabling the observation of atomic wave functions and quantum characteristics that cannot be reproduced on the ground.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Pritzker responded to Colbert’s observation by joking that Illinois Democrats had asked kindergarten students to draw the map.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Aug. 2025
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Automated services cost money but save you time, handle rechecks and can catch new listings faster.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
21 May 2025
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If teams receive good news during his medical rechecks, there’s still a chance he’s selected on day one of the draft.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Apr. 2025
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Drummond, who was considered armed and dangerous, was recently captured on surveillance footage amid the high-profile search to track him down.—
Taylor Ardrey,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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Combs was physically violent on numerous occasions with Ventura, and photographic and video evidence of her being assaulted was shown to the jury throughout the trial, including 2016 hotel surveillance footage of Combs beating Ventura, which was first published by CNN in May 2024.—
Elizabeth Wagmeister,
CNN Money,
5 Aug. 2025
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There are also GitHub repos for your perusal, and OpenAI will host stock versions of the models on its own infrastructure for testing.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
5 Aug. 2025
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Artists will have ceramics, paintings, jewelry, textiles, glass, wood and metal artwork available for perusal and sale from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.—
Kit Grode,
Twin Cities,
14 July 2025
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Republican Governor Tate Reeves speaks with supporters during an election night watch party at the Refuge Hotel & Conference Center in Flowood, Mississippi, on November 7, 2023.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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But these videos were few and far between—other people can be an obstacle to running your life with the precision of a ticking watch.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Checkout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/checkout. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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