ROUTS (OUT) Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

routs (out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of rout (out)

as in finds

to come upon after searching, study, or effort if you give me some time, I can probably rout out more supplies

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However recognizable the structures may be—isolated phrases giving way to longform improvisation—the performance finds Taylor in a transitional period, one in which the ephemerality of the moment pushed its musicians to bold new places.

— Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2026
The survey finds that the Democratic candidates running in Michigan, Texas, Maine, Ohio, and Kansas are ahead of their Republican counterparts by 11, 7, 6, 5, and 5 percentage points, respectively.

— Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of finds

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Rama soon learns that the people of Ayodhya are raising questions about Sita’s chastity after her captivity in Lanka and criticizing him for taking her back.

— Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
The advantage goes to the organization that learns fastest from each deployment.

— Todd Bernson, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of learns

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Decades later Santa discovers the misplaced letter and immediately sets out to make things right.

— Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026
The New Yorker named this novel — about a man who discovers a manuscript secretly written by his wife, who has early-onset Alzheimer’s — one of the best books of 2026.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of discovers

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Serhiy, like Zabuzhko, locates his captor’s impulse to torture him in the very pages written by the Russian novelist.

— Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026
The Greeks offer another kind of striving, one that locates pleasure in the pursuit itself rather than in the prize.

— Stacy Keltner, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of locates

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As the plasma gets hotter, its nuclei move faster, and a greater proportion of encounters occur at energies favorable for fusion.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
The background street gets wildly warped from distortion, and anything outside of the center suffers some detail loss.

— Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 30 Oct. 2026

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