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Recent Examples of smoke out
Smashbox’s Always Sharp Kohl Eyeliner is creamy enough to smoke out, with a tip that never goes blunt.
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Lily Wohlner,
Allure,
25 Mar. 2026
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
See All Example Sentences for smoke out
Lily Wohlner,
Allure,
25 Mar. 2026
McKenna recalls production having to smoke out snakes and scorpions each day before filming began.
—
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
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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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Atlantic City acknowledged Roman Reigns before Seth Rollins interrupted him.
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The Menopause Society acknowledges a lack of long-term data on how breast cancer survivors respond to hormone replacement therapy.
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Last season’s Yulissa Escobar was dismissed after Redditors unearthed old videos of the event planner dropping the n-word on a podcast discussing an ex-boyfriend.
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These include an elite Viking Age burial site unearthed near Lisbjerg and engraved 9th century silver bangles, found in Elsted, that functioned as currency whose value was determined by the jewelry’s weight.
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Elsewhere in the episode, Sheridan confessed to not caring about the opinions of television critics.
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During her trial, prosecutors played a recording of Yang confessing to Reuter's murder to a friend who was wearing a wire.
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El Tri is averaging two goals a game and has yet to concede one.
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Mexico remains unbeaten in this year’s tournament and has won four out of four games without conceding a goal.
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Its argument is that humanities departments have become overly specialized, politicized, and disconnected from the goal of imparting a common body of historical knowledge.
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The values imparted to me throughout my public school education — equal opportunity, impartial justice, respect for expertise, basic honesty — have been abandoned by a new breed of politician that has turned governance itself into a blood sport.
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The company agreed to settle the case without admitting liability.
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But even Willis admits AI can be a helpful tool in the right capacity.
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“Smoke out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke%20out. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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