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Recent Examples of shake out
Verb
In what could shake out as the UFC London co-main event, former UFC light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz meets rising star Carlos Ulberg.—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025 The playoff picture Here’s how things currently shake out.—Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
Clearly, there are some steps left to go in legacy media’s shakeout during the months ahead, following an eventful summer.—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024 Now, many say, all that expansion is setting the stage for a shakeout.—Robert Frank, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shake out
Arguably, the biggest snubs can be traced back to the best actress and supporting actress categories, proving there were just too many stunning performances by women to possibly reward them all.
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Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
23 Jan. 2025
But the three points gained from Sunday, which lifted United above City into the Champions League spots, may prove to have more of a lasting impact.
Chanel has seen a far-reaching management shake-up since the arrival of Leena Nair as global CEO in 2021, charged with implementing a long-term succession plan.
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Joelle Diderich,
WWD,
16 Jan. 2025
The staffing shake-up comes nearly a year after Shaw and Madhavan filed a peace order against Perkins’ then-CEO, Scott Moran, alleging that Moran was harassing health department employees over the internet.
After entering the season ranked 16th in the AP Top 25 and going 11-2 in nonconference play, Arkansas has started 0-5 in the SEC and has fallen out of the NCAA Tournament field.
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Brendan Marks,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
But the run-up to its recording and release had seen Coverdale fall out with Sykes and the rest of the band, firing them all.
Was this accelerating viral migration part of the thinking behind the shortness in TikTok’s shutdown, notwithstanding that the platform didn’t really need to go dark and could have simply awaited the change in administration?
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Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
Facing a shutdown, millions of the app’s users expressed disbelief, sadness, anger and defiance, with many posting farewell messages and others mock funerals; while critics have argued that this is a blow to free speech.
In total, the report recorded 944 bank closings between January and September 30.
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Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
Defendant Brenda Andrew is led into the courtroom in Oklahoma City, Monday, July 12, 2004, following a break in the closing arguments of her murder trial.
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