rips (out)

Definition of rips (out)next
present tense third-person singular of rip (out)
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Verb
  • Security snarls The TSA PreCheck line at terminal B in LaGuardia Airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, on March 27, 2026.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Beyond the red tape that snarls any new apartment, condominiums confront an additional hurdle.
    M. Nolan Gray, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • But Pimlott also remarks that Elizabeth was not especially interested in clothes for their own sake.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • In his Tuesday remarks, DeSantis noted legislators have also not completed the budget for the next fiscal year, which could eventually be combined with the redistricting efforts.
    Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The uproar over Timothée Chalamet‘s comments on opera and ballet may have died down, but the star’s Call Me by Your Name director has belatedly come to his defense.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The National Park Service announced Thursday that comments on the Los Angeles Coastal Area Special Resource Study will now be accepted through May 23.
    City News Service, Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
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
  • Among the family is Michael (the ridiculously handsome Regé-Jean Page), Matteo’s cousin-slash-brother (again, long story), who owns a vineyard and with whom Anna immediately gets off on the wrong foot, even though their attraction is also immediate.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Advertisement Christine Adams Courtesy of Apple TV Lang gets off the train and, once at a safe distance, detonates the explosive.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 4 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • This grand procession of Edmonia’s work is an act of reclamation—a gathering in her name that shouts through stone and into the eons.
    Tyehimba Jess, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • William shouts that someone DID come looking!
    Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • These are texts that hide their depth under a thick layer of flatulence jokes, loud guitars or Texas drawls.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Oryn, the high-octane Chinese speciality restaurant blends Cantonese and Sichuan flavors with nightclub energy—moody lighting, a DJ booth, and a bar that whispers promises of an after-hours mischief.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Michael, who has been staring at the door, looks up and whispers in Lumet’s ear.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Rips (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rips%20%28out%29. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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