CHECKS OUT Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of check (out)

as in scans

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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verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of check out

as in dies

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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If everything checks out, the service module’s main engine will fire Thursday evening to send the crew on a trajectory that will loop them around the Moon. — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026

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Consider its standard features, including an adaptive suspension that scans the road and adjusts the ride accordingly.

— James Raia, Mercury News, 26 July 2026
And for all the whinging about the cast’s racial diversity, the actor who in some ways reads least as an ancient Greek is Matt Damon, whose Odysseus scans as American, which is almost certainly the point.

— Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026

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First, when someone dies without a will, their property passes to heirs in accordance with their state’s laws.

— Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 29 July 2026
The general rule is that when an IRA beneficiary is an entity instead of an individual, the IRA must be distributed fully within five years after the original owner dies.

— Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of dies

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This unique trend sees AI adoption rise while trust falls, fueling widespread demand for accountability and human oversight.

— Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
As several experts have told CNN, when a drug trafficking leader falls, there are always many others available to succeed him, so the criminal organization – at least for now – remains active.

— Sol Amaya, CNN Money, 20 July 2026

Definition of falls

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Her work examines fashion as a cultural and ideological system, with a focus on copying, repetition, and reuse as critical and pedagogical strategies to question dominant notions of originality and value.

— Vogue, Vogue, 30 July 2026
The research examines nearly 2,000 past and future total solar eclipse paths, comparing them with present-day national borders to determine how frequently each country experiences the rare celestial event.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of examines

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The company organizes thousands of AI agents into statistically representative populations—each agent assigned an age, an income, a zip code, a gender, among other things—and surveys them in place of human respondents.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 June 2026
Sartori surveys the lagoon weekly by boat for signs of nesting, which would indicate a self-sustaining Venetian colony.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 May 2026

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