take out

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as in to accompany
to go on a social engagement with she'd like to take the new boy out to the movies sometime

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of take out The version that passed took out the provision opening the program to non-residents, and included a seven-day waiting period. Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 22 May 2025 The Newsom administration, the wire service revealed, recently took out a $3.44 billion loan from the state’s general fund to cover the program’s costs for this month. Editorial, Boston Herald, 22 May 2025 Customers who took out loans — which range from $200 to $3,000 — pleaded for relief from onerous terms that allowed Minto Money to claw back the sums multiple times over through automatic bank withdrawals. Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 21 May 2025 For years, Mexican police, sometimes with U.S. assistance, have been destroying drug labs and taking out kingpins — to no apparent effect on cross-border smuggling. Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for take out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for take out
Verb
  • After decades of unleashing all sorts of brilliant, transcendental digs to people of all races and backgrounds, has Patti LuPone gone too far by doubling down on her feud with two prestigious actresses of color?
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 28 May 2025
  • Denver made a couple of substantial changes last year that unleashed the group as a whole.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 28 May 2025
Verb
  • Watch the accompanying video, directed by Scrub, below.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 23 May 2025
  • The Mulholland Drive actor’s hosting duties were announced via Instagram on May 20, accompanied by a photo of herself alongside her daughter.
    James Factora, Them., 23 May 2025
Verb
  • So everybody that's in the United States, and in this case in Puerto Rico, without an immigration status, needs to be removed or deported.
    Adrian Florido, NPR, 2 June 2025
  • The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sent a licensed trapper to remove the injured alligator, officials said.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 2 June 2025
Verb
  • Milk was assassinated in 1978 by a former colleague on the board.
    Jonathan Horwitz, Oc Register, 23 May 2025
  • The day after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, a little over four years earlier in 1963, Hartford Public Schools held a half-day so students could grieve.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 21 May 2025
Verb
  • Greenwood never played for his boyhood club again, despite the charges being dropped in February 2023 when the prosecution’s main witness withdrew her cooperation.
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 31 May 2025
  • Macron made the remarks as the U.S. is considering withdrawing troops from Europe to shift them to the Indo-Pacific.
    DAVID RISING, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025
Verb
  • Trump contends that white South African farmers are being murdered in a racially motivated genocide, and that the South African government has permitted itself to seize their land.
    Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2025
  • More people are murdered in South Africa annually, with its population of just over 60 million, than across the entire Western world, with its population of almost a billion people.
    Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2025
Verb
  • Similarly, the requirement for iPadOS 16 means the latest YouTube update won’t run on the iPad Air 2 (released in 2014) and iPad mini 4, first sold in 2015.
    David Phelan, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • On May 29, a day after Todd and Julie were released from their forever prisons, Savannah shared an Instagram Reel with multiple selfies of herself and her father shopping together.
    Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 3 June 2025
Verb
  • The couple dated for nearly two years, and in Dec. 2023, Lovato, 32, announced that they were engaged.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 26 May 2025
  • Lando previously dated model Luisinha Oliveira for about a year from 2021 to 2022, according to Just Jared.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 25 May 2025

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“Take out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take%20out. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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