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rout

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noun (1)

rout

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noun (2)

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Recent Examples of rout
Verb
Vonn took the super-combined and downhill titles the previous two days. 2014 — The Clippers rout the rival Lakers 142-94. Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025 But the Eagles put on a show to rout the defending champs 40-22. Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
Micah Nocita’s rushing TD jump-started the rout, and Colton Camba’s long TD pass to Mikal Hegenbart late in the opening quarter accelerated it. Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025 The 335-pound Chicago Bears defensive tackle scored a touchdown during the Bears’ 46-10 rout of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX in 1986. Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rout
Verb
  • How Wi-Fi HaLow Can Help Address These Needs To overcome connectivity gaps in large-scale environmental monitoring, some researchers and technologists are turning to Wi-Fi HaLow.
    Michael De Nil, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The movie adaptation is also rife with metaphors about boys becoming men and overcoming life-or-death circumstances to make it out the other side.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The star linebacker then made a spectacle of his final preseason outing with the team.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Belichick, the eight-time Super Bowl champion, is searching for his first collegiate win in his first true road game after being trounced by TCU in Chapel Hill on Monday night.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Nix and company managed to sneak into the playoffs, but they were trounced by the Buffalo Bills in the Wild Card round.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Senegal’s Lamine Camara is the type of midfielder that would help many a Champions League-chasing team.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Five teams are chasing a postseason berth.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His best friend’s little sister sets out to whip him back into shape.
    Tessa Bailey, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Boaters were the last to be warned to watch the sky as a line of wind-whipping storms pushed out to sea.
    Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Booker, of course, didn’t get that opportunity in the opener after Carter was ejected before the first play for spitting on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
  • After the opening kickoff against the Cowboys, a flag was thrown by the officials and Carter was ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct just six seconds into the new season.
    Kevin Dotson, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For the first time, Israel launched an airstrike in Qatar, bombing a building in Doha that houses Hamas political leadership.
    Greg Dixon, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Israel has also regularly bombed the south.
    USA Today, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This tension is only underlined by the filmmakers’ insistence on using pictures of the real Warrens and their demon-banishing clients in the credits of most Conjuring-verse movies.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This blemish-banishing formula includes witch hazel, algae extract, and grape seed extract, plus vitamin E to keep pores looking tight, rein in excess sebum, and shield skin from free radicals.
    Esme Benjamin, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Rout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rout. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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