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Recent Examples of out of Matching sets, like this turtleneck and skirt combo, take the work out of putting together a sleek outfit. Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026 As Earth’s tectonic plates shifted, huge volumes of volcanic gas and carbon dioxide transformed the atmosphere, sucking oxygen out of the oceans and devastating shallow-water environments. Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2026 About 70,000 Nebraskans enrolled in Medicaid through the expansion, out of the roughly 346,000 Medicaid recipients in the state. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 May 2026 Hitting the snot out of the ball. Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 1 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for out of
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  • College will still exist as a place—or, at least, as a website or app—that employers will use to distinguish one applicant from another.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 5 May 2026
  • The man came down from the security barrier as Albee slowly walked toward him.
    Kellie Love, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2026

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“Out of.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/out%20of. Accessed 8 May. 2026.

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