smoke out

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Recent Examples of smoke out Prop open the door to help vent smoke out of the hotel. Sophie Stuber, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 White House aides were similarly trying to smoke out where things stood. Philip Elliott, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025 Advertisement Near the coast, the Palisades fire chewed through the Santa Monica Mountains and reduced dream houses with Pacific views to their foundations, sending a jetstream of smoke out to the ocean. Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025 When in your car, put the air on recirculate mode to keep the smoke out and keep the windows closed. John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for smoke out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoke out
Verb
  • The couple, who have seven boys ranging in age from 6 years old to 27, also own a Victorian-style house on 5 acres in nearby Vineyard, east of Elk Grove.
    David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The utility had owned replacement generators since 1988 but had not installed them.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Here, too, the leaf litter had been raked up everywhere by turkeys.
    Larry Dablemont, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Unfortunately, if the plant has flowered and produced burs, there’s no way to mow, rake up, or otherwise remove them from the lawn to get rid of them.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • This could signal a more calculated, region-specific approach — one that acknowledges price sensitivity in certain segments and the importance of maintaining U.S. market share.
    Esat Dedezade, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The sheriff of Island County, Mark Brown, apologized to Fred and acknowledged, in a public report, that his own staff was responsible.
    Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Inside every cairn, the team unearthed countless human and animal bones, often fragmented.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Pounding the pavement to rummage for vintage treasure is inherent to unearthing the rare and one-of-a-kind pieces that celebrity stylists, editors, and fashion-loving brides-to-be seek her out for.
    Talia Abbas, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Brian Tyree Henry confessed to breaking his own cardinal rule of not returning to television in order to star in Apple TV+’s crime drama Dope Thief.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Ninety percent of British women and nonbinary people polled in 2020 confessed to sometimes using filters before posting selfies, and 85 percent to using external editing software such as FaceTune to tweak pictures of themselves.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Deputy Latah County Prosecutor Ashley Jennings also flat out denied Taylor's accusations that prosecutors were slow-walking discovery and said everything the defense has asked for has been provided, a point that Taylor conceded in front of the judge.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • His interrogator conceded that the police must have gotten the wrong guy and released him within weeks.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • This imparts more energy from gravity, per the authors, increasing the mixing of the granular coffee grounds.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The Manchester by the Sea and You Can Count on Me filmmaker imparted his advice about how to carve a screenwriting career in the film business during a lengthy keynote conversation with Room and Frank director Lenny Abrahamson.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • King, who recently turned 70, admitted she had been terrified of flying but found courage through the mission's extensive preparation.
    Analisa Novak, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Arteta admitted post-Brentford that those moments depend on the opponent’s behaviour, with man-orientated pressing sometimes helping to create gaps that Rice tried to exploit in the first half before getting a clearer run from the corner in the second half.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Smoke out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke%20out. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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