tucker (out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tucker (out)
Verb
  • Officials said that none of the passengers on the boat were wearing life jackets at the time of the incident, and alcohol is not believed to have been a factor in the crash.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Rare was the big public event in which none of the bold names were telling red-carpet interlocutors that were wearing Armani.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Over the past two months, Texans have used green ribbons with bows to commemorate the lives lost in the July 4 Hill Country flooding, which killed more than 100 people, including more than two dozen girls and counselors from Camp Mystic in Hunt.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Jerry Jeudy makes far too much money to wreck possessions with two drops, one that killed a drive and another that resulted in a crushing interception.
    Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Then eventually, the fish starts to tire out.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • So people shouldn’t swim against the current, which puts them at risk of tiring out.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • With all other options seemingly exhausted, Una and Spock decide to take another path by getting in touch with their crewmates’ katras, roughly the Vulcan term for the soul, though the Vulcans would probably not want to use that term.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Jones remained on Ohio's death row for decades, exhausting most of his appeals, until Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Wende Cross overturned his murder conviction, freed him from prison and granted him a new trial two years ago.
    Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Proving Well-Being is a Performance Strategy In May 2023, Amanda Anisimova was ranked as one of the world’s top 30 tennis players - and deeply burned out.
    Dilan Gomih, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The founders who burned out early never got to see their compounding effects.
    Andrew Filev, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In his second scrap under the UFC banner, Adriano Martins knocked out Makhachev in the first round.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Bugner regained his triple crown — the Euro, Brit and Commonwealth titles — in his next bout, knocking out Richard Dunn in the first round.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The cool-season annual needs full sun and well-draining soil to grow, and prefers mild temperatures.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Fraudulent pet listings are leaving victims emotionally devastated and financially drained, Dennis Horton, senior director of the Rockford Regional Office, said in the announcement.
    Abreanna Blose, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hurts wore out a defense without Micah Parsons on touchdown runs of 4 and 8 yards — no legal tush push needed.
    Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Vermeer and Interlune are considering ways to engineer the machines so parts that wear out can be robotically changed.
    Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Tucker (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tucker%20%28out%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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