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Recent Examples of dine outTo help break down actual costs, the experts at William Russell analyzed the everyday average living expenses in popular expat destinations, including utilities, public transportation and dining out.—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025 Your instinct may tell you the answer is based on financial values, but there are definitely people who cannot afford to dine out and do so regularly.—Harmon Kong, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 Ordering takeout or dining out as a family became an exhausting routine.—Ashley Vega, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025 With absurd rents and the cost of living rising everyday, Charlotte is fast becoming expensive — to say nothing of Mazi’s nearly cost-prohibitive neighborhood in South End — so much so that dining out has become a luxury.—Timothy Depeugh, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for dine out
For some, pumpkin spice signals the unofficial start of fall—showing up in everything from lattes and breakfast pastries to cookies, truffles, muffins, quick breads, and more.
Today’s clients aren’t just heiresses and socialites—such as the archetypal ladies who lunched Nan Kempner and Lynn Wyatt—they’re young tech founders, wealthy aesthetes, and archivists.
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Chloe Russell Kent,
Air Mail,
9 Aug. 2025
The lifestyle influencer, 36, has been sharing content from her girls' vacation to Bali, where she's been lunching out, shopping and even getting matching tattoos with her friends.
The only movement is that of goats who nibble the long grass that grows around the Cold War aircraft wrecks that litter this forlorn spot on Grenada’s east coast.
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The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
19 Sep. 2025
Install tree trunk protectors now, especially on young fruit trees, since rodents who nibble on bark will soon be considering this activity as their food supply shrinks with the onset of cooler weather.
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