run out

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Recent Examples of run out Rickelton was run out in the 16th over, with Mumbai suffering a minor hiccup at 184-3, down from 148-0. ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026 The world will hit an oil cliff in mid-April, in Papic’s estimation, because supplies from the strategic petroleum reserve as well as Russian and Iranian oil exempted from sanctions will run out. Matt Peterson, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026 With the ideological fervor of the Islamic Revolution having run out and the clerical establishment delegitimized, true power now lies with the Guard. Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2026 By the time the Great Toilet Paper panic of 2020 was over, 70% of the world’s grocery stores would have run out at some point—a record. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for run out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for run out
Verb
  • Who would cast out the kind of characters that Tucker Carlson and company are encouraging?
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The Rams eventually released him, simply cutting him loose – a franchise icon cast out into the cold.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • If someone changes partners, the person who gets kicked out of the relationship gets removed from the ship and the show, via walking the plank into the ocean.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
  • James' sister Jenny also got a kick out of the pair working together again on Your Friends & Neighbors, the actor tells PEOPLE.
    Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Now, there's a push to eliminate the primary and allow voters to choose more than one candidate.
    James Taylor, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The question, then, is not how to eliminate extraction, but how to recognize it as a metabolic relation.
    Manuela Moscoso, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The Eagles had in mind city-dwelling male breadwinners and excluded household and domestic work from their vision of who was among the deserving.
    Trevor Jackson, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Baldwin excluded, the top of the Braves lineup still has some work to do.
    Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Jack Hughes and Aerin Frankel, who helped lead the Team USA men’s and women’s hockey teams to gold medals at the Winter Olympics, threw out the ceremonial first pitches at Friday’s game.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The high-profile prosecutions of Comey and James were short-lived, as they were quickly thrown out by a judge who ruled that the prosecutor who brought the cases was illegally appointed.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2026

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“Run out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/run%20out. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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