as in to wear
to use up all the physical energy of
keeping up with twin toddlers wears me out
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Recent Examples of wear out
Loading your audio article A mysterious track defect somewhere along a major New York City subway line is wearing out the wheels on subway cars, causing a shortage of trains on the lettered lines, the Daily News has learned.
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Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Orlando has shown great poise and fight but over a long season, that tends to wear out quickly.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
Worn in and worn out Marchand has an endorsement contract with New Balance, Warrior’s parent company.
—Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
For example, sides can be worn out using the Side Distortion tool which creates random holes in the body with Erosion or partially dim text using Blur distortion.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Orlando has shown great poise and fight but over a long season, that tends to wear out quickly.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
Worn in and worn out Marchand has an endorsement contract with New Balance, Warrior’s parent company.
—Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
For example, sides can be worn out using the Side Distortion tool which creates random holes in the body with Erosion or partially dim text using Blur distortion.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wear out
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Vogue Shopping The insider’s guide to what to shop and how to wear it.—
Chioma Nnadi,
Vogue,
23 Jan. 2025
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The superstar took to her Instagram Stories on Wednesday (Jan. 23) to share a video wearing headphones while sitting at what appears to be a studio desk, before grabbing the phone and turning it around to reveal the screen in front of her, blocking its contents with a red heart emoji.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
23 Jan. 2025
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Only after her fiancé was killed, Hart said, did her employer install a lock and door handle.—
Cathie Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Jan. 2025
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Tens of thousands succumbed to disease, starvation and mining-related accidents, while others were killed as part of a larger genocide.—
Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Jan. 2025
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Once all that sightseeing has tired you out, Patria Palace is the ideal place to recover.—
Nick Hendry,
theweek,
3 Dec. 2024
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Things got slightly more alarming as the game went on and the midfield engines began to tire, particularly as a flurry of late attacks almost saw the hosts nick all three points.—
Thom Harris,
The Athletic,
19 Aug. 2024
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But the last of those emergency dollars are being exhausted this fiscal year and won’t be available to help in the next two-year state budget, which Lamont will propose to lawmakers on Feb. 5.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
23 Jan. 2025
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Two of those teenagers, Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall, lay flat on their backs at full time, exhausted by yet another 90 minutes.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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During her post-surgery recovery, simple tasks like bending over became incredibly difficult, leaving her feeling both physically and emotionally drained.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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The result is a graceful character study that explores why someone’s capacity for warmth seems to have long been drained.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Nearly half of health workers reported often feeling burned out in 2022, an increase from 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.—
John Daley,
NPR,
24 Jan. 2025
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Even if nothing could have stopped those fires, L.A. only narrowly escaped further destruction from numerous new blazes that started after the Palisades and Eaton fires were already burning out of control.—
Jay Balagna,
The Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Wear out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wear%20out. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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