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zoned out

verb

past tense of zone out

as in hacked (around)

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Then Kirkwood pulled off a strong restart with 13 laps to go and Lundgaard didn't mount much of a threat as the 250-mile race wound down.

— CBS News, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
The day wound down with a stop in the Arts District for a delicious espresso martini and some insanely good Mexican food, followed by a short stop at Ellis Island before closing beers at Stage Door.

— David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of wound down

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Eventually, Cease loosened up enough to mow through many Red Sox.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 26 July 2026
A lot has changed since then—the designer shuffle means most brands have new creative directors, and the men’s silhouette has certainly loosened up a bit (though maybe be coming back down to Earth).

— Irene Kim, Vogue, 13 June 2026

Definition of loosened up

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Installing and maintaining them can get expensive, however, and some fire-prone areas are too thickly vegetated or rainy to benefit from their surveillance.

— K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 20 July 2026
We were parked alongside a remote and heavily vegetated waterway called Furlong Creek, which was the site of another one of Johnson’s experiments.

— Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025

Definition of vegetated

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When a power outage knocked out a third of San Francisco’s traffic lights last December, at least 60 Waymos abruptly idled mid-road, causing severe gridlock and delays.

— Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2026
The former home of Belden had a commercial use in recent years and idled for six years before being acquired by his group.

— Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026

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