rip (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rip (out)
Verb
  • This isn't the first time the Trump administration has specifically tried to limit which words the Energy Department uses.
    Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The plan, as worded, gives them little to hold on to as an achievement after Hamas sparked two years of war on Oct. 7, 2023, with unbearable sacrifices for Palestinians.
    Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Air travel was snarled during the more than month-long government shutdown that ended in January 2019, hours after a shortfall of air traffic controllers disrupted flights in the New York area.
    Lillian Rizzo,Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Duffy's threat came as flight delays, caused in large part by controllers calling out sick, has snarled air traffic across the country for four straight days.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel declined to comment.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Florida Bar declined to comment on its victory, referring a Miami Herald reporter to its response in the Supreme Court case.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • More reports of damaging winds observed across portions of northwestern Louisiana, remarking that storms brought down trees and powerlines.
    Shawnie Caslin Martucci, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • As one of the killers remarked to Capote about his victim.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some Republicans say there’s still plenty of time to formulate new strategies and adjust to the changes, since most of the new Medicaid provisions don’t go into effect until January 2027.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The security guarantee plans that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was charged with formulating for Ukraine – plans only needed if there is an enduring peace – remain opaque.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To this day, people come up to him and quote phrases his character used to utter.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In essence, the Iowa and West Virginia sports cases ask the court to rule whether a transgender girl – a person assigned male at birth who has transitioned to align with their identity as a girl or woman, as the AP Stylebook phrases it – is a girl or a boy.
    Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Fans have already seen queens who can lip sync for their lives, queens who create stunning looks, and queens who perform well.
    Braedon Montgomery, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The creamy formula glides on effortlessly, giving cheeks and lips a healthy, radiant glow without drying or caking.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • As in the never-ending parade of ostensibly Christian exorcism movies, religious belief here seems like a superficial excuse for a stock array of supernatural hoodoo — no matter how many times Chalik’s Abuyya pauses the action to mouth some healing doctrine.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The Bulldogs players began to tap their friends and mouth the quarterback’s name.
    Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Rip (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rip%20%28out%29. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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