How to Use farm out in a Sentence
farm out
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The beef, pork and lamb come from the shop's small farm out in Palo Verde, about 40 miles west of Phoenix.
—Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 15 June 2021
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The training job might even be farmed out to distributors who sell wine to restaurants.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
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Blue Cross and other health plans often farm out those reviews to companies like AIM.
—T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 7 Nov. 2023
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But more and more of these judgments are being automated and farmed out to algorithms.
—Nir Eisikovits, Fortune, 7 July 2023
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Feuer, whose office made the decision to farm out the investigation to the law firm, declined to be interviewed or to comment.
—Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
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The company began to farm out production to other countries.
—Zolan Kanno-Youngs Marian Carrasquero, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
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Parishes have the authority to farm out their tax collection duties.
—David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2020
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Most of that daily work is farmed out to an obscure government agency known as the Administrative Office.
—Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
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On the vegetable front, Monbiot profiles a fascinating farmer, Iain Tolhurst, who has created a remarkable 17-acre farm out of land that’s 40 percent stone.
—Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
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Except that with many NFT games, players are encouraged to farm out their assets to others, and exchanging those assets for real money down the line is totally above-board.
—Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
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Some hosts ask guests to fill out their own addresses on envelopes during the party, while others farm out the task entirely to unsuspecting relatives.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
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Many health plans also farm out medical reviews to other companies that employ their own doctors.
—Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2023
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The funding for the guarantees comes from a remaining pot of 15.5 billion euros via the state lender Instituto de Credito Oficial that still hasn’t been approved for banks to farm out to companies.
—Charlie Devereux, Bloomberg.com, 11 June 2020
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Utilities are now building their own big battery farms out near their big solar or wind installations, which is helpful—studies show that there aren’t enough rooftops in the U.S. to hold the solar panels needed to run a fossil-free power system.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
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In the 1970s, Washington tried farming out the job of regional security to local contractors, relying on Iran and Saudi Arabia to keep oil supplies flowing.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
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Schenck’s successor, Joseph R. Vogel, declared that really, there was no need for a hands-on studio chieftain guiding production because the studio could farm out projects to independents.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2022
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The issues are job protection and work jurisdiction, according to the union, which alleges WTTW is trying to farm out their long-standing technical duties to news producers and nonunion personnel.
—Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2022
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The issues were job protection and work jurisdiction, according to the union, which alleged WTTW was trying to farm out their long-standing technical duties to news producers and nonunion personnel.
—Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
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In recent decades, the conventional auto wisdom had it that manufacturers should concentrate on design and final assembly and farm out the rest to suppliers.
—Jack Ewing, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2022
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Not only does this approach farm out enforcement to entities who are inherently better capable of detecting and denouncing each other’s problems or misdeeds.
—WIRED, 6 July 2023
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Accountability at the top Subcontracts are a regular fixture of business, with major corporations farming out low-level work to third-party enterprises.
—Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
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PBMs initially started out doing a specific task: handling the nitty gritty of processing and adjudicating prescription claims that insurance companies and large employers were only too eager to farm out.
—Danielle Ofri, STAT, 20 Jan. 2023
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