outed

past tense of out

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of outed Last year, the singer-songwriter was outed by an ex on social media. Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025 The burger diner chain, on social media, outed itself as being behind a billboard in Nashville, Tennessee, calling for the ouster of Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino. Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 23 Sep. 2025 In his third career plate appearance, Eldridge inside-outed a four-seam fastball from the Diamondbacks’ Taylor Rashi. Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025 It's also expected that David Giuntoli, who may or may not have outed himself as the Game Maker in the season 1 finale, will play a larger role in season 2. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025 Sports piracy has become so widespread that even professional athletes, like Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James (who was spotted using Streameast in May 2024) and Seattle Seahawks' Tariq Woolen, have been outed as users. Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025 In the past year alone, Bennett was in Superman and was outed as the most popular guy at SNL, and Mooney directed A24’s Y2K and toured a new album of original music. Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025 This being classified information, he's outed as a collaborator and arrested. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outed
Verb
  • After the video circulated, McMahan stepped down as emcee Sunday, the final day of the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black.
    Jenna West, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Ahead of the latest shutdown deadline, OMB circulated guidance telling agencies to submit workforce reduction strategies, a move unions and legal experts warn is a blueprint for mass layoffs during a funding lapse.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Arkansas coach Sam Pittman was fired Sunday, and defensive coordinator Travis Williams, co-defensive coordinator Marcus Woodson and defensive line coach Deke Adams were dismissed Monday.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Pushed to extremes While footage and photographs of starving Palestinians in Gaza have horrified audiences abroad, inside Israel they have been dismissed by many as manipulated or untrue.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Twenty years later, Iraq War veteran Aaron Hughes continues spreading his realization that soldiers can better champion American ideals by following their conscience over orders.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • About 25% of female breast cancer cases were found at the regional stage, meaning the cancer had spread to nearby lymph nodes, tissues, or organs, and 6% were found at a distant stage, meaning the cancer had spread to distant parts of the body, CDC data shows.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After a confrontation with officials, Reeve was ejected and later fined by the WNBA for criticizing officials during a postgame news conference.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • When a foul wasn’t called on the play, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve charged the court to challenge a referee and was ejected from the game.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The girl only makes selfless wishes, and Iblis is banished to his lamp for a millennia for his failure.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Payton clearly doesn't think the play needs to banished for player safety reasons.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Security guards quickly chased after the man while Ne-Yo continued his performance.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The former chased the latter all afternoon and generated the plotline everyone on the terraces came for.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And in the worst case scenarios, their child might be expelled from their child care.
    Beki San Martin, Freep.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Palestinian-American director Cherien Dabis’ historical drama premiered at Sundance and tells a multigenerational story of a family expelled from Jaffa in 1948.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Westmoreland—who also, to be fair, had a habit of not charging friends for many drinks at all—was evicted from the subway location in 2001.
    Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • That was a remarkable turnaround from a player who appeared poised to be the first person evicted out of the house.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Outed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outed. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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