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zoned out

verb

past tense of zone out

as in hacked (around)

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As the World Cup has wound down, the transfer market has not taken long to spring into life.

— Cerys Jones, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Oil can be produced, taxed, regulated, and wound down on a schedule, without being sold to a saver as a contribution to the energy transition.

— Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

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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
Pick up any grime the steam loosened up and wipe down the tiles as well as the grout.

— Maria Sabella, The Spruce, 18 May 2026

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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

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