run out

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Recent Examples of run out The Back-to-School Bash ran out of the kits less than two hours into the event. Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025 If your kitchen is steadily running out of storage space, consider this pantry cabinet. Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2025 Moreover, news broke recently that a tax credit program that helped Broadway come back from COVID by providing shows with millions of dollars in subsidies is running out of funding. Brent Lang, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025 One is Swift showing off her new album to both Travis and Jason, and another is Jason nearly running out of breath while offering up a crazy introduction. James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for run out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for run out
Verb
  • This week, filming took the cast out east, and Zoe was taking a few extra days for herself before flying back to the West Coast.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Ever on the lookout for versions of the Peruvian Eden from which he had been cast out as a child, Gauguin expected, in Brittany, to encounter Celtic culture in all its untrampled magnificence.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, co-creators and writers for HBO’s The Sympathizer — a seven-episode mini series starring Robert Downey Jr., have been kicked out of the WGA West for writing the series during the 2023 strikes when pens were supposed to be down.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Jay Weinberg got kicked out of Slipknot, but signed on with S.T., whose Greyson Nekrutman quit to join Sepultura, after Eloy Casagrande left to play for Slipknot.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The law is projected to cut $1 trillion mostly from Medicaid and Affordable Care Act insurance plans and eliminate insurance coverage for 11.8 million people over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The lack of offense, including an 0-for-14 performance from the top four hitters in the lineup, continues a stretch in which the Cubs haven’t put up enough runs consistently to eliminate the small margin for error in games.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • These alliances can create competing blocs, excluding developing nations and reversing global integration.
    Jay Patel, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • That bill calls for not only excluding noncitizens from the apportionment numbers, but also a new census and round of congressional redistricting before the 2026 midterm election.
    Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Still, Wells thought there were two outs and that the inning was over when Grisham was thrown out.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 31 July 2025
  • Police chief confident no criminal cases were compromised At least two people, citing the issues within the Tempe forensics unit, asked a judge to throw out evidence in their criminal cases.
    Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 31 July 2025

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“Run out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/run%20out. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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