chuck (out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chuck (out)
Verb
  • Back in 2012, the NCAA also moved kickoffs to the 35-yard line from the 30 in the hope that more balls would be kicked out of play and not returned.
    Alana Semuels, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Mighty Bay gets a kick out of my disgust.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In her conversations with small-business owners, Higgins learned that some have been forced to reduce staff or lay off employees because several of their workers were TPS beneficiaries or were in the process of regularizing their paperwork.
    Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The shutdown has also left federal workers unpaid, with around 4,000 federal workers laid off and key services suspended, with no end in sight as both parties hold firm.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hernández writes that the industrialization and nationalization of the economy in the late nineteenth century meant that large numbers of men were frequently thrown out of work.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Don't throw out those white or ivory dining chairs just yet.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This will be the second primary challenge launched to unseat Ogles since his election in 2022.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Brooks bull was also in contention to unseat the Spider Bull, the reigning nontypical world-record in the Boone and Crockett record books, which accepts big game killed by any legal method.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Chuck (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chuck%20%28out%29. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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