GOING OUT (WITH) Synonyms: 7 Similar Words

going out (with)

verb

present participle of go out (with)

as in accompanying

to go on a social engagement with I'm going to go out with that foxy woman from work next Saturday night

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With less than two years until the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, serious questions remain about funding and coordination for the Cultural Olympiad, the arts and culture program accompanying the Games.

— Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Anton Corbijn directed the accompanying video filmed in the California desert, which satirizes U2 as a religious cult in which women do all the heavy lifting.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 15 Oct. 2026

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will be providing updates throughout the weekend as the storm makes its way across the region, soaking the South in rain and taking out trees and power lines along the way.

— AJC.com, AJC.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Those details alone are also generally insufficient for opening major financial accounts or taking out loans because financial institutions typically require additional identity verification.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

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Fusion equations meet robotics In nuclear fusion research, Google worked with University of Maryland professor Matt Landreman to identify a broader class of counterexamples to Grad’s conjecture, a mathematical hypothesis dating to 1967.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
The jean is enhanced with a continuous one-piece fly dating to 1877 and is made with a single-needle construction, with no serger or overlock method.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

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