RUN OUT Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

run out

verb

Definition of run out

as in to cast out

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Recent Examples of run out Some critical weapons, including anti-ship missiles, could run out within days. — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026 Rather than Ole Miss run out alone and receive the invective, the Rebels waited for Arkansas to run out, then finally took the field. — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Today, John Moffitt is running a growing, successful business, raising a young daughter, savoring the good days when things run smoothly, working through the days when the wireless gives out, or ingredients run out before the customers do. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026 Not only do these dramatic repetitions yield diminishing returns, Hicks also seems to run out of ways to answer with any kind of surprising modulation. — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for run out

Recent Examples of Synonyms for run out

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

Definition of cast out

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

Definition of kick out

Verb

Companies on this path are looking to AI primarily as a way to reduce headcount, eliminate outside resources and lower their overall marketing investment.

— George Couris, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
This deal, covering Southeast Asia’s largest economy and 280 million people, eliminates tariffs on 98 percent of goods traded between the two.

— JONAS NAHM, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of eliminate

Verb

The piece questions the company's focus on alternative earnings metrics excluding amortization and its squishy customer retention.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
That figure jumped after Friday's inflation report showed that prices remain stubbornly high and core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy, picked up in August from the previous month.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of exclude

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