eighty-six

variants or 86

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eighty-six
Verb
  • Make sure to discard salsa that was left out at room temperature for over two hours, especially on hot days.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 15 May 2025
  • Today, House Republicans will move promptly to discard it.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • The University of San Diego and San Diego State both lost Thursday to drop into the losers’ brackets of their respective double-elimination conference baseball tournaments.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2025
  • Co-producers include Jyoti Drummond, Colin Drummond, and Wade Major, who also lost their homes in the fire.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • Finally, ditch the return-to-office mandates and try piloting schedules that are outside of the traditional 9-5, 5 days a week.
    Lindsay Kohler, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Plus, people are ditching their pay-TV packages for cheaper streaming options and further chipping away at the cable companies’ once-lucrative bottom lines.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • But that idea gets scrapped not long after it’s introduced.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
  • Some schools have scrapped lessons describing the U.S. as a nation of immigrants.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • Bush Hager also shed light on what her mother, Laura Bush, is like with her dad.
    Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 22 May 2025
  • The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, which had turned positive in the late morning, shed 191 points, or 1%, to touch 18,952.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • To compound the embarrassment, Arsenal fan group Ashburton Army had raised more than £12,000 to fund their own tifo, which the club rejected (fans who had donated were refunded their money).
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • On May 16, Brown appeared in Manchester Magistrates’ Court, where Judge Joanne Hirst rejected his bail request.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 18 May 2025
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“Eighty-six.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eighty-six. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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