run out

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Recent Examples of run out Thomas offered a glimmer of hope in the fact that the flurry of court actions involved in the five-year rule have a limited number of potential plaintiffs — only those who graduated high school in 2022 and saw their eligibility run out last spring. ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026 Geneva’s Tate Beran caught the ball near the 20-yard hash mark but was unable to run out of bounds before time expired. Jerry Birchfield, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026 Congress has about six years to shore up the Social Security trust fund, which is expected to run out of reserves by the end of 2032. Ashley Lopez, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026 Carroll’s defense gave up a first down, but then forced four consecutive incompletions to take the ball back and run out the clock. Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for run out
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Verb
  • These will show whether the vote was a watershed moment in the demise of an anti-fascist consensus dating back to World War II, or the latest in a series of elections worldwide in which frustrated voters simply cast out incumbents.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • These are sons and daughters and children cast out, disappeared from their communities and forced to make a life in the shadows of society.
    Tembe Denton-Hurst, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Giants special assistant Ron Wotus considered Vitello’s first-inning ejection by umpire Alan Porter last Friday so unfair that he got kicked out the following day while exchanging lineup cards.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • During its socialist revolution, the government kicked out many foreign oil companies.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Fitness testing eliminated NHL players were accustomed to returning from summer to a grueling set of tests from their teams.
    Chris Johnston, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Bring up the unnecessary and wasteful government programs that should be eliminated.
    Cal Thomas, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Yet only a few people have actually seen it, with smaller and open-source AI companies generally getting excluded from the administration’s conversations.
    Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Bubeck allegedly wanted to exclude Alpöge, an employee of OpenAI’s competitor, according to Buckmaster.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Baserunning blunders The Marlins have had more runners thrown out on the bases than any other team, including a dumbfounding one Friday when Deyvison De Los Santos inexplicably took off from second on a ground ball hit to shortstop.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2026
  • In 2024, the court rejected an emergency request from Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel in Gaza, but the 16-judge panel declined to throw out the case altogether.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026

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“Run out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/run%20out. Accessed 10 Sep. 2026.

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