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Recent Examples of shake out
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Payton, regardless of how those top spots in the offensive meeting room shake out, will have different and likely younger voices around him.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2026
Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2025
All-Terrain Testing My first run in the shoe was a short 5k shakeout on the roads around downtown Chamonix.
—Will Porter, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025
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Verb
In the center of Good’s memorial, a man gingerly brushed snow from cardboard signs, shook out bouquets of flowers and wiped off teddy bears.
—Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Payton, regardless of how those top spots in the offensive meeting room shake out, will have different and likely younger voices around him.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
An hour long mediation and visualization session will be held directly before a 3 mile shakeout run featuring music, coffee and other refreshments.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2025
All-Terrain Testing My first run in the shoe was a short 5k shakeout on the roads around downtown Chamonix.
—Will Porter, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shake out
Verb
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But beyond that, unity has proved elusive.—
JACQUELINE CHARLES MIAMI HERALD,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
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Mike Brown has his chance to prove Dolan and Rose right, and at least take the Knicks one round further than Thibodeau did, when his team never recovered from that crazy shot Tyrese Haliburton made in Game 1 of the conference finals.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But the Falcons clearly needed a major shake-up.—
Michael Cunningham,
AJC.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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The Dolphins fired coach Mike McDaniel in the latest NFL shake-up.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The gun could easily fall out of that holster.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Perfect with a simple jeans-and-tee combo, this staple piece is one that’ll get year-round wear and never fall out of fashion.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The ramifications of the current partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security will be subtler, which may ultimately mean less pressure on the minority party to relent.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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In 2021, as the state’s economy began recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown and as billions of dollars in federal relief flooded the state, general fund revenues jumped 53% above the pre-pandemic 2019 level, topping $200 billion for the first time in history.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Despite parents’ pleas to the group leading the initiative, the special committee on Tuesday did not sign off on any plan to entirely avoid closing campuses.—
Molly Gibbs,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Saks Global, in its initial round of luxury store closings in bankruptcy, said on Tuesday that eight Saks Fifth Avenue’s stores would also go dark around April.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Last year, Workday launched an effort to dispose of potentially multiple office buildings in Pleasanton as part of an ongoing downsizing.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The layoffs and intentional downsizing led to a nationwide scramble as federal employees with specialized skills competed for private and nonprofit sector jobs.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Shake out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shake%20out. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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