sweating out

verb

present participle of sweat out
as in handling
to put up with (something painful or difficult) I can sweat out one more year of this job—before I totally flip out

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Recent Examples of sweating out Cade realized the players were sweating out electrolytes — another word for minerals like sodium, potassium and magnesium — and upsetting the body’s chemical balance. — Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026 Cade realized the players were sweating out electrolytes – another word for minerals like sodium, potassium and magnesium – and upsetting the body’s chemical balance. — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026 The Horned Frogs won eight of nine games to finish the season and avoid sweating out their spot on the NCAA Tournament bubble. — Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Mar. 2026 For overnight guests, tailor your thermostat settings to meet their needs without sweating out the rest of the family (or sending your home’s energy efficiency spiraling). — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2026 The team's 8-9 record wasn't much better than the 4-5 finishing mark last season, and the Panthers still needed help to win the division, sweating out Atlanta's victory over New Orleans to prevail over Tampa Bay. — Mike Sando, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026 Everyone was dancing, sweating out their edges, and singing every word. — Sandy Pierre, Refinery29, 7 Nov. 2025 The man is a yeoman on the diamond, having spent the past couple of seasons showing up early and sweating out infield drills to refine his skills at shortstop. — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025 Water is running down the walls and dripping through light fixtures, as though the house itself is sweating out a fever. — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweating out
  1. handling
  2. standing
  3. enduring
  4. tolerating
  5. accepting
  6. taking
  7. sticking out
  8. bearing
Verb
  • The demonstration highlights how humanoids could take over repetitive material-handling tasks while fitting into existing industrial workflows.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
  • And the two meteorologists working that night were handling multiple incidents at once.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 27 July 2026
Definition of handling
Verb
  • About three seconds later, while the man is on the ground, a male officer standing over him appears to fire three rounds, and the man stops moving.
    — Marin Scott, NBC news, 23 July 2026
  • While standing at the case, visitors can hear the audio of the speech where Douglass criticizes Americans celebrating freedom while millions remain enslaved.
    — Kaitlyn Harvey, AJC.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of standing
Verb
  • What makes the deceptively simple Negroni one of the world’s most enduring classic cocktails?
    — Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Keegan later moved into management, revitalizing Newcastle ​United and taking ​the club to ⁠the brink of the Premier League title in the mid-1990s before enduring a more difficult spell as England manager.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Definition of enduring
Verb
  • The Steamfitters were staging protests outside the Pfizer site, accusing the MetroLoft — which employs a mix of union and nonunion contractors — of building on the cheap and tolerating unsafe work conditions.
    — Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
  • Women who are actively seeking new employment show narrower pay gaps than those who stay, which means the ones tolerating the widest gaps are often trading fair pay for flexibility or job security.
    — Kara Dennison, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of tolerating
Verb
  • These fees aren’t a profit grab by the banks but a way for merchants to recoup the costs of accepting credit cards.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026
  • Investors are demanding stronger profits after initially accepting a steep drop from Niccol’s in-store investments.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 26 July 2026
Definition of accepting
Verb
  • In the Madrid region alone, 6,000 hectares (23 square miles) burnt overnight, taking the total area scorched in that region to 34,000 hectares (131 square miles) in just the last few days, Ayuso said.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
  • There's Volta, a sheltered offering that wraps around the lobby, and Parostia (taking its name from the stone oven of traditional Parian houses), sandwiched between the pool area and the beach.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
Definition of taking
Verb
  • The next day the train departed for Laredo, where a worker at the Union Pacific Rail Yard saw a leg sticking out and found the other six bodies inside.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026
  • Tamra isn’t wearing any pants to show off her Depends and the silver pubes sticking out of them.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 July 2026
Definition of sticking out
Verb
  • But their use exploded in the 2000s, with roughly 10% of bills and resolutions introduced between 2020 and 2022 bearing such titles, up from 1 in 20 in the previous decade, and under 1% in the late 1990s, an Atlantic analysis found.
    — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2026
  • Cut the flower stalks back to encourage more foliage-bearing shoots.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2026
Definition of bearing

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