1
as in to announce
to make known openly or publicly
that's information that I'm not prepared to give out
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2
as in to cast
to throw or give off
this heater gives out a funny smell sometimes
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as in to die
to stop functioning
waiting for the fuel pump in my old car to give out
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Recent Examples of give out
That gives the impression that contract extensions won’t be given out without some hard, emotion-free calculations.
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Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
Many of the roughly 100 gold medals given out during the Games have been lost to history, and the few that remain are housed in museums and private collections.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
The award was given out during the Grammys’ pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony, in which the vast majority of the night’s honors are handed out prior to the performance-heavy prime-time telecast.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
The artists, minus Carpenter, Roan and Khruangbin, performed a medley before the award was given out.
—Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
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Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
Many of the roughly 100 gold medals given out during the Games have been lost to history, and the few that remain are housed in museums and private collections.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
The award was given out during the Grammys’ pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony, in which the vast majority of the night’s honors are handed out prior to the performance-heavy prime-time telecast.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
The artists, minus Carpenter, Roan and Khruangbin, performed a medley before the award was given out.
—Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for give out
Verb
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The school announced that Faulkner, along with other donors, gave gifts to the Camden Scholars Program.—
Lucas Frau,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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Since Trump has taken office, Musk announced that USAID would shut down.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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For Shao New York’s Monday night show, founder and designer Shao Yang cast solely AAPI models at the House of the Red Pearl restaurant.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
11 Feb. 2025
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She was cast in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2010 and, three years later, in an episode of Orange Is the New Black.—
Abby Aguirre,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
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French died Friday in Los Angeles of complications from Alzheimer’s, his wife of 34 years, longtime Days of Our Lives actress Eileen Barnett, told The Hollywood Reporter.—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Feb. 2025
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Actors get a lot of a lot of praise and all that; shows’ success live or die with the crew.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
9 Feb. 2025
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This story was originally published February 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
9 Feb. 2025
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The research was published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
9 Feb. 2025
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The effort to begin a partition with the Gaza Strip has failed colossally.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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At best, presidents picked up-and-coming party devotees like Elaine Chao, a shameless pro-boss hack, or Tom Perez, a nice guy for sure, who failed to deliver any significant gains for blue-collar America.—
John Samuelsen,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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There also was little pushback from the church in Rome: not until the late 1880's, Murphy said, would the Pope definitively declare slavery to be morally wrong.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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Although its exact origins are unclear, the quote is often attributed to Napoleon, the French general who effectively declared himself emperor in the early 1800s.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
17 Feb. 2025
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As Desiree, Cox radiates charisma, a quality that pairs perfectly with her dad Wallace, a teddy bear who fumbles with the right pronouns but has swelling love and pride for his daughter.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
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Elbow pain: With lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow), pain and burning center on the elbow joint and can radiate to the forearm.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
13 Feb. 2025
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The aircraft crashed into a rice field near Ampatuan, a small municipality in the southern Maguindanao del Sur province.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2025
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According to Sky News, the plane that crashed on Marques de Sao Vicente Avenue in Barra Funda was a twin-engine Beech F90 King Air.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Give out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/give%20out. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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