as in to hang (around or out)
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Recent Examples of zone out
Speaking as someone who would like to zone out this holiday season: Dammit.
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Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2024
Everyone needs background noise for wrapping presents or something to zone out in front of after a big holiday meal, and the streamers know how to get the job done.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
Everyone deserves the chance to zone out to neon blobs.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
In interrogation, the sisters might have remembered their father’s tactic: focus on a point in the wall and zone out.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2024
Everyone needs background noise for wrapping presents or something to zone out in front of after a big holiday meal, and the streamers know how to get the job done.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
Everyone deserves the chance to zone out to neon blobs.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
In interrogation, the sisters might have remembered their father’s tactic: focus on a point in the wall and zone out.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zone out
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Speaking at the White House on Friday morning, President Trump announced that SBA will be responsible for handling federal student loan programs, one day after signing an order to begin winding down the Department of Education, which currently manages the programs.—
Ed O'Keefe,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2025
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Whatever the reason, the Blackhawks are not in a good place as the season winds down.—
Scott Powers,
The Athletic,
19 Mar. 2025
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Making the choice to be social is especially difficult at the end of an exhausting day when your impulse may be to veg out on the couch.—
Allie Volpe,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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Plus: What better way for locals to veg out during a stressful election season than with some grade-A on-screen drama?—
Mimi Montgomery,
Axios,
19 Sep. 2024
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Journey fans were bummed when their favorite band had to hot-foot it off the stage on Friday (March 14) just five songs into their set at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo at NRG Stadium.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
17 Mar. 2025
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Yoshi’s bummed about being denied a puppy by her parents, tempers her anger and fills the void with a scavenger hunt in her backyard that turns up a lizard (Laggie) and a cricket (Grillo).—
Catharine Kaufman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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As water evaporates, the steam will help loosen up a bit of the gunk for easy cleaning.—
Matthew Korfhage,
WIRED,
16 Mar. 2025
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With natural arm movement, people practice loosening up while balancing.—
Matt Fuchs,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
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Williams wishes that the cicada-phobic would just chill out.—
Mary Carole McCauley,
Baltimore Sun,
10 Mar. 2025
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My pattern was to decide never, ever, ever to drink again; bump up against that first-sip craving; and then counsel myself to chill out, take the sip, don't be a perfectionist.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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Used cars will go up big and auto plants will be idled like mad.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
16 Mar. 2025
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Their boat was found idling in circles, sparking a massive search.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
10 Mar. 2025
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Get our daily newsletter Yet Mr Schwarzman avoids footling with life’s foot-soldiers for a reason.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
19 Sep. 2019
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Last year an American startup called Swarm Technologies paid a footling $900,000 fine for sending four tiny satellites into orbit on an Indian rocket, having been denied permission to do so by the US Federal Communications Commission.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
17 July 2019
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Commenters debated whether certain dog breeds were more prone to loafing and stretching in this way.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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More strikingly, people all over the county were actually seeing mountain lions, not only in their high beams at night but in broad daylight, with increasing regularity: crossing the road, loafing at the edge of a fenced field, skirting a campground.—
Malcolm Brooks Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton,
New York Times,
31 Dec. 2024
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“Zone out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zone%20out. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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