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as in fails
to be unsuccessful
most of the participants in the tough training program washed out
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as in bleaches
to make white or whiter by removing color
the bright lights of the TV studio washed out her facial features, making her look as white as a ghost
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as in wears
to use up all the physical energy of
that last illness washed the child out completely
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as in rinses
to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse
wash out your bathing suit in the sink
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Recent Examples of washes out
While the midnight sun washes out celestial colors during summer in places like Alaska and Finland, the Midwest's summer nights stay dark enough to enjoy the dancing ribbons in a T-shirt and shorts.
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Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
Sky glow happens when light reflects off haze and dust particles in the air, creating a diffuse glow that washes out the night sky.
—Harold Wallace, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
Sky glow happens when light reflects off haze and dust particles in the air, creating a diffuse glow that washes out the night sky.
—Harold Wallace, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for washes out
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The state alleged that Amazon doesn’t go far enough to find reasonable accommodations for employees upon request and fails to consider whether a different accommodation or work location would be a match for an employee who is pregnant or has a disability.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
27 Oct. 2025
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If Washington fails to even mildly improve relations with Brazil, India, and South Africa, Beijing and Moscow will toast their good luck.—
Richard Fontaine,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Oct. 2025
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His owner, Hannah Gleason from Oklahoma, told Newsweek that the merle gene isn’t a coloring gene rather than a gene that bleaches the fur and causes lack of pigmentation which can lead to birth defects, blindness, deafness, or sometimes all three.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Greenwich Village still wears its history like a second skin, every street a pulse of old New York.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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With one of largest concentrations of military bases in the country (each year, nearly 40,000 military trainees call it home), San Antonio wears its 300-year military legacy with pride.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
26 Oct. 2025
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Go with the classic Sun In Hair Lightener, enriched with aloe, marigold, chamomile, and flaxseed, or the newer Fun In by Sun In Temporary Hair Color, which rinses out after one wash.—
Annie Blackman,
Allure,
9 Oct. 2025
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The notion that the catastrophe stems from inadequate defense spending collapses the moment the interceptors fail.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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When the ceiling collapses in her Montauk apartment, she’s forced to move to a bleak low-rent motel.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
15 Oct. 2025
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Along with being functional, these bowls offer a modern look with an embossed texture surrounding the exterior and gradient color scheme that fades from the smallest bowl to the largest.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
24 Oct. 2025
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But once the novelty fades, no one will care how a video was made.—
Victor Riparbelli,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
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Williams' new movie Regretting You is based on author Colleen Hoover's 2019 novel; Williams and Mckenna Grace costar as mother-daughter duo Morgan and Clara, whose relationship is tested after a car accident kills both Clara's father (Scott Eastwood) and Morgan's sister Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald).—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Tim Robbins’s turn as a smarmy film executive who kills a screenwriter skewers the movie industry with a wink and a nod.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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To start with a wedding, then wait ’til later to figure out the details of who washes the dishes and whether the toilet seat stays down, sounds backwards but is certainly better than hostage-taking and war without an achievable end.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
26 Oct. 2025
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Its Ozmo roller mop washes itself with hot water and dries with heated air.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Washes out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/washes%20out. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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