irons out

verb

present tense third-person singular of iron out
as in clears (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irons out
  1. judges
  2. reasons
  3. works out
  4. unties
  5. infers
  6. concludes
  7. figures out
  8. decides
Verb
  • MasterChef Australia judges Yeow and Sofia Levin later spoke to 10 News about welcoming Meghan to the set, describing an enthusiastic atmosphere among the contestants.
    — Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026
  • Which means Beijing is regulating what your fifteen-year-old does after dinner, behind a closed door, with an entity that never tires of them, never judges them, and never has a bad day of its own.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of judges
Verb
  • How the Fed reasons its way to agreements is as important as the agreements.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2026
  • The system reasons underneath, processing infinitely complex 3D scenarios, handling trade clashes, regulations and tradeoffs - learning from user feedback over time to eliminate the need for users to supervise its intelligence.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Definition of reasons
Verb
  • Spread across 339 nodes, the $242,624 paid since December works out at roughly $715 each.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Let’s say this works out, recognizing that a couple of impressive days at training camp are a really long road shy of that sentence being true.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of works out
Verb
  • Sarah unties Gerard and runs out just in time to stop Downey, who begs her to let this all go.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025
Definition of unties
Verb
  • Examples include an agent that suggests a Roth conversion without looking at the life situation—such as age or tax bracket—or a support agent that infers CSAT is high due to dropping call volumes but doesn’t know a major telecom system is down.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • So hopefully the audience infers certain things, and every now and again, Austin, as Jay, will chime in with a little bit of dialogue.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
Definition of infers
Verb
  • And somewhere in that arms race, the graduate who only wanted a place to learn sends her three hundredth application into a portal that will never answer, and quietly concludes that the reaching was the mistake.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Online pre-bidding concludes with a live, in-person auction for the Sanders memorabilia on Tuesday evening.
    — Dylan Lovan, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026
Definition of concludes
Verb
  • Those things matter, but great corporate videography starts earlier, in the pre-phase, the exploratory phase, when the production team figures out what the client is really trying to accomplish.
    — Tavares Beverly, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Deborah arrives for her freshman year at her parents' HBCU alma mater and figures out how to escape their shadow while also building her own legacy.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of figures out
Verb
  • So there could be a world where Arteta decides to start them as a pair again.
    — Art de Roché, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • The job is to define what the seat requires out loud and test every candidate against it, so the proof women already produce decides.
    — Julia Rafal-Baer, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of decides
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