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noun

variants or down-and-outer

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Recent Examples of down-and-out
Adjective
Tesla is separating itself from the down-and-out auto industry and moving into the AI universe because of its self-driving work, using neural networks trained on video clips and a supercomputer to constantly make the software better. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025 As the Bills clinched the AFC’s No. 2 seed in blowout fashion, a 40-14 thumping of the down-and-out Jets, everything was coming up 17. Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024 But like some of the stock and crypto prices, fintech has gone from down-and-out category, to a core investment area. Alex Lazarow, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024 The always hilarious Luke Wilson portrays down-and-out soap opera actor JD Campbell, whose money-hungry, cheating wife Margo Starling, played by Linda Cardellini, is burning through his money. Dana Feldman, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024 But the sight of a down-and-out Dan Aykroyd in a Santa suit eating a slab of salmon through his grungy cotton-candy beard fills us with the holiday spirit. Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024 Housing space was now just for patients, not simply down-and-out veterans. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024 As River Cartwright, a down-and-out MI5 agent, Lowden is usually shoved into a chaotic side operation while his colleagues deal with the looming national catastrophe driving the season. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024 Oftentimes fly-by-night quarterback Jameis Winston energized a seemingly down-and-out Browns team in his first start for the team — his first start anywhere in more than two years. Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for down-and-out
Adjective
  • Twilio — Shares of the cloud communications company plunged 15% on the heels of its weak earnings guidance.
    Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The Trade Desk missed fourth-quarter revenue estimates and issued weak guidance.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Like De Fontenay’s debut feature Mobile Homes, which followed an impoverished family scraping by in upstate New York, Sukkwan Island has a powerful immersive quality that makes up for some of its dramatic shortcomings, especially dialogue that can feel either stilted or too on-the-nose.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The states that voted for Trump also tend to be more dependent on those federal funds and have more impoverished areas.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One is the friction between the haves and have-nots, an old and sturdy foundation on which to build a specific, meaningful tension between two people with differences posing a real test to their attraction.
    Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2025
  • As if New Mexico State University, one of the perennial have-nots in FBS college sports, wasn’t already facing enough challenges, the state legislature is poised to toss it a meager financial lifeline that appears all but out of reach.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Though Osbourne had a farewell tour set to begin in 2023, he was forced to cancel the shows due to poor health.
    Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Lopetegui was eventually sacked on January 8, having failed to fix West Ham’s poor form.
    Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump mocked Biden as feeble and the worst president ever.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Iran’s various proxies—Hamas and Hezbollah, in particular—have suffered major losses, and the Islamic Republic’s capabilities in both air attack and air defense have been exposed as feeble.
    Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Frasers find out that Jane has been buried in an unmarked grave in a pauper’s field, news that devastates Frances.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 17 Jan. 2025
  • He was made to leave a pauper after years of hard work.
    Kanak Kapur, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Wilson’s voice, in particular, verged on frail—so far from the immaculate silk of the recording as to seem like a reinvention.
    Michael Owen, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Only the uninitiated and those with a frail grasp of the big picture would add more lawyers to any governmental stew.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Extra hooks allow the bag to transform into a trapezoidal hobo shape.
    Joelle Diderich, WWD, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There’s a lot to love about Coach’s viral shoulder bag: the modern hobo style, the soft leather, the distinct shape.
    Lindy Segal, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2024

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“Down-and-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/down-and-out. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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