run out

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Recent Examples of run out After running out of steam with the uneven 1992 sister albums Lucky Town and Human Touch, Springsteen spent most of the decade raising his kids and tentatively circling a reunion with the E Street Band while searching for new directions. Ryan Leas, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2025 Stock is expected to be extremely limited and run out quickly, so most stores will likely implement a hard limit of one per customer. Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025 The overloaded vessel, named Helen, ran out of fuel before reaching the island and passengers were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. prosecutors said. Michael Loria, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025 Pete has a pretty good head start, but his dehydrated horse runs out of gas, stumbles, and crashes to the ground. Matt Cabral, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for run out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for run out
Verb
  • The Democratic primary turnout between Waukegan and North Chicago was 3,309 votes cast out of a registered voter base of 50,059 or 6.6%, according to the Lake County Clerk’s Office.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Our real-time ranking of Trump’s new brain trust, from giants of industry, old hands and emerging outsiders, tracks who’s in the inner circle—and who’s been cast out.
    Joe Walsh, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The caucus voted to kick out Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) last July for endorsing a primary challenger to then-Freedom Caucus chair Bob Good (R-Va.), prompting Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) to resign in protest.
    Andrew Solender, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The lawsuit continued and stated that after Strain was kicked out of the bar, he was lost and without help and stumbled in the wrong direction towards the Cumberland River, a four-minute walk from the bar his fraternity brothers had seen him last at.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Vietnam offer to drop tariffs not enough On Monday morning, Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro said on CNBC even Vietnam's offer to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not be enough for the administration to lift its new levies announced last week.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
  • For football, one playoff win over a three-year period eliminates you from waiver consideration.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • While the sector has been excluded from the recent tariffs, levies could come in the future.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
  • School leaders believed other records that might have fulfilled the requests contained too much private information and were excluded from public record under student privacy laws.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Read's defense keeps adding new players, and her lawyers recently petitioned the Supreme Court to throw out two of the three charges against her.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The 5-to-4 vote threw out a lower court's ruling to temporarily stop the deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Run out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/run%20out. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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