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Recent Examples of smoke out
McKenna recalls production having to smoke out snakes and scorpions each day before filming began.
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Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2026
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.
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Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
30 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.
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Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
9 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for smoke out
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2026
Everyone is trying to smoke out moles, or plant some of their own.
—
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
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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Its focus is on converting and owning the datasets, Manish Agarwal, co-founder of Humyn Labs, told CNBC.
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Baby boomer empty nesters still own almost twice the share of large homes as millennial families, according to Redfin data, and many aren’t planning on leaving any time soon.
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Spring cleanup will be an easy matter of loosely raking up dead foliage.
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There are no pods to rake up in the fall with these varieties.
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Suarez also acknowledged both teams' slow starts, emphasizing the Red Sox's need to contend.
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Still, Sadeq acknowledged the Ashura ceremony would be much diminished compared with previous years.
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The Chief Financial Officer of Florida, Blaise Ingoglia, continues his dog and pony show around the state claiming to have unearthed shameful, excessive spending by counties and municipalities.
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And what might be a good omen has been unearthed during the building activity at Sojourner Place at Park.
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Hernandez confessed to the crime, a confession his defense team argued was false and borne from mental illness.
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Chester Weger confessed to the murders of three women in 1960, but was only convicted of one.
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While scoring goals left and right, the Dutch have also conceded a goal in every game, four in all.
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Baltimore will be getting its first female sheriff after incumbent Sam Cogen conceded to Sabrina Tapp-Harper in Maryland's primary election.
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Stammen imparted his confidence directly to Machado in yesterday’s 10th inning by way of a pat on the backside and an encouraging word before Machado stepped on the field with his bat in hand.
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In this recipe, genmaicha, Japanese green tea mixed with roasted brown rice, is used to encrust salmon, imparting a nutty, floral flavor and making an exceptional and unusual dish in very little time and with very little effort.
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According to police, one woman was shot in the extremity, two juvenile males had lower extremity injuries, and an adult male and female with lower extremity injuries were admitted into area hospitals, all with non-life-threatening injuries.
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And whether teschers want to admit it or not, AI plagiarism detectors aren’t all that great, so error rates alone raise doubts about relying on them.
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“Smoke out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke%20out. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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