Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wore (away)
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That's because the odor is washed out in the rinse cycle, leaving behind only the benefits of adding it to the wash.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
4 Jan. 2026 -
Let’s hope they get washed out in the semifinals next week.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Jan. 2026
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America's lead in AI confers a strategic advantage that should not be eroded by selling the very engines of computational power to a geopolitical competitor.—
Paulo Carvão,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Away from this airport stronghold, populations are so small and habitats so eroded that the snakes would be in a downward spiral of inbreeding and population decline if left to their own devices.—
Pepper St. Clair,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Regardless, Vance is the current front-runner in the 2028 Republican presidential primary, though early, hypothetical polls are undermined by Vance’s name recognition compared to other prospective candidates.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Jan. 2026
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The collapse of the Soviet Union undermined the central purpose for the United States’ agricultural diplomacy.—
Peter Simons,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2026
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Mockovak scoured the bylaws of his housing community and discovered a provision that could further elevate his voice, his activism and his spirit.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
11 Jan. 2026
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Blue and white linear patterns visible on A23a are likely related to striations, which are ridges that were scoured hundreds of years ago when the iceberg was part of the Antarctic bedrock, NASA said.—
Stephen Smith,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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At the time, Denver’s Landmark Preservation office told the Denver Gazette that the old neon was too deteriorated to restore.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
11 Jan. 2026
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The already-frosty relationship between Devers and the front office deteriorated to an irreparable level in May, when Triston Casas suffered a season-ending knee injury.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
11 Jan. 2026
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Current models of super-Eddington accretion predict that these features should be weakened or absent when growth becomes so extreme.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Jan. 2026
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Trump took it a step further in December, with an executive order that further weakened state-level guardrails for AI development.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Wore (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wore%20%28away%29. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
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