dine out

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Recent Examples of dine out According to the National Restaurant Association (NRA), a 25% tariff on food and drinks from Mexico and Canada could lead to higher menu prices, further burdening consumers and making dining out more expensive. Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2025 For consumers, that means dining out is becoming more of a choice than a habit. Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025 The coat’s since worked just as well on a particularly chilly visit to the Dallas Country Club, and while dining out with family in Park City. The Editors, Outside Online, 13 Feb. 2025 Restaurants react to consumers dining out less Food away from home has increased 3.6% over the 12-month period ending in December 2024, compared to a 2.5% increase for all food and a 2.9% increase in all items, according to the Labor Department's consumer price index. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dine out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dine out
Verb
  • Beverage and snacking giant PepsiCo was also on Goldman’s list.
    Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Talking late and snacking in the kitchen is the best.
    Kayla Grant, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Trade professionals and home improvement DIYers often buy heavy-duty handheld vacuums to clean job site messes like sawdust, drywall dust or wood shavings.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
  • That messed me up, that messed my friends up, messed my whole family up.
    Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Most people were boarding another one, to go swimming at the calanques.
    Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025
  • In the ‘60s —while Black Americans marched for civil rights and troops were sent overseas in the Vietnam War — the building was boarded up.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • As Senators sipped diet sodas and grazed on sandwiches, the Kentucky lawmaker went through a slide deck with charts and statistics in service of a bold proposal: come out against President Trump’s tariffs.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Memphis first responders at the house where a man said he was grazed by a bullet after his dog’s paw got stuck in the trigger.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Prior to the dance, children lunched on chicken chow mein, egg rolls and rice.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Facing widespread accusations of election fraud, the regime lunched an unprecedented wave of violent crackdowns that landed more than 2,000 people in prison, including opposition politicians, human rights activists and journalists.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • But the amount of the sun that will be covered in this region will be quite small, amounting to only a bite or nibble or barely a nick in the sun's disk.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The newlyweds dined on filet mignon, nibbled on wedding cake and drank champagne toasts.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025

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“Dine out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dine%20out. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.

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