shaken out

past participle of shake out
as in proven
to come to be after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out

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Recent Examples of shaken out But he’s been shaken out of his solipsistic reverie. A.o. Scott, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shaken out
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  • Evolutionary thinkers have long argued that humans evolved to notice snakes, which might explain why these creatures slither into a vast number of mythologies, from Quetzalcoatl in Mexico and Damballa in West Africa to celestial dragons in China.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The model evolved from physical counters and a web portal to the super app Abu Dhabi uses today.
    Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • The last issue came out in 1932, under the direction of his wife, Nelly, dedicated to his memory and produced with the collaboration of active and former members of De Stijl.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Green Bay Packers towered over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday with a 27-18 win, and that wasn't the only news that came out from Packers' camp.
    Anne Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • His favorite target proved to be Pickens, who finished with nine receptions for 168 yards and a 34-yard score.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In 2001, Spielman and Teng proved that the tiniest bit of randomness can help prevent such an outcome.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • In the film, Tomnikov plays a 30-something trauma survivor named Heloisa who arrives at a summer cottage with her new boyfriend and discovers that her boyfriend’s mother, a woman named Anu, is her former psychotherapist with whom Heloisa had fallen out.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The Henley Passport Index is one of several rankings measuring passport potency in this regard and, for the first time in its 20-year history, the US passport has fallen out of its top 10 list altogether.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • No Kings organizers estimated that more than 5 million people turned out for the June protests.
    NPR, NPR, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This was all perhaps most evident on D’Angelo’s third studio album, which turned out to be his swan song.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
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  • Nonetheless, the bank’s share price has plunged over 20% since the bankruptcy unfolded last month.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Ripa’s story doesn’t end there, as both the co-hosts and Gere then get into how the dinner unfolded.
    Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Shaken out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shaken%20out. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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