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Recent Examples of smoke out
Everyone is trying to smoke out moles, or plant some of their own.
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Jan. 2026
Imposing the personality cult upon the state is designed not only to burnish the leader’s image, but to create opportunities to smoke out dissidents.
—Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
By 2010, a knit face covering couldn’t even hide her beauty—dewy skin and smoked out eyes—at Vogue’s 90th Anniversary Party.
—Essence, 4 Dec. 2025
The level design occasionally takes inspiration from the multiplayer, where the solution to smoking out a sniper is usually to bring an entire building down.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Jan. 2026
Imposing the personality cult upon the state is designed not only to burnish the leader’s image, but to create opportunities to smoke out dissidents.
—Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
By 2010, a knit face covering couldn’t even hide her beauty—dewy skin and smoked out eyes—at Vogue’s 90th Anniversary Party.
—Essence, 4 Dec. 2025
The level design occasionally takes inspiration from the multiplayer, where the solution to smoking out a sniper is usually to bring an entire building down.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoke out
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Both are owned by giants of the ceramics industry in Porcelanosa and Mapei.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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Turner owned professional sports teams in Atlanta, defended the America’s Cup in yachting in 1977 and donated a stunning $1 billion to United Nations charities.—
David Bauder,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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Mow the lawn to a lower height than usual, being sure to bag the grass clippings and rake up any remaining debris that can keep the seeds from coming into contact with the soil.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
8 Mar. 2026
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Instead of leaving them all as mulch beneath the trees, rake up excess needles, especially those that accumulate on driveways and along curbs.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Mar. 2026
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In April 28 letters to city and state officials, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon demanded that both Denver and Colorado stop enforcing the bans, acknowledge the laws are unconstitutional, and enter into consent decrees to ensure the bans are not enforced.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
4 May 2026
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The targeting of Turmus, which Israel acknowledged, demonstrates how, time and again, its military has mastered an intelligence war for which Hezbollah appears to have no answer.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
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The morning of her WNBA debut, Aubrey Griffin‘s mom unearthed a decade-old photo of the former UConn women’s basketball standout attending her first New York Liberty game at 16 years old.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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The dusty brown scrapbook, long presumed lost but recently unearthed in the back of a cluttered closet, filled in some of the answers.—
John Ficarra,
Washington Post,
8 May 2026
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In October 2014, TMZ obtained an audio recording of Collins allegedly confessing in a 2012 joint therapy session with then-wife Faye Grant to molesting underage girls.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
3 May 2026
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Mashburn-Smith confessed to the crimes and was charged with Unlawful Activity with Certain Minors, the sheriff's office said.—
Robert McGreevy,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2026
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Their final away game might not look great but Chelsea are on one of the worst runs in the club’s history, losing the last six games while conceding 14 goals and scoring only one.—
Abdul Rehman,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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Dick conceded that there was some avoidance on his side, too.—
Janet W. Lee,
NPR,
7 May 2026
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Marcellus is really, really smart, which Molina imparts via a wry and world-weary voiceover.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
7 May 2026
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Ted imparted his children with knowledge of how to care for the planet and made great efforts to educate the public about their impact on the Earth.—
Alex Gurley,
PEOPLE,
6 May 2026
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Walter had recently been admitted with severe head injuries to the intensive-care unit of a nearby hospital.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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Watkins, who worked in higher education for 45 years before retiring in 2023, admitted there were some who questioned why someone who earned reportedly more than $90 million in a pro basketball career would be in college.—
Jason Jones,
New York Times,
10 May 2026
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“Smoke out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke%20out. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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