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some new and way-out suggestions for naming the baby
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Suddenly, after months of sameness, way-out Pluto makes a move, ending its latest retrograde and turning direct!
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Jennifer Culp, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
Instead, the way-out Moon creates a beautiful annular solar eclipse where a brilliant band of Sun is visible around the outer edges of the Moon, lookin’ sort of like Sauron’s One Ring to Rule Them All glowing up there in the sky.
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Jennifer Culp, Them, 27 Sep. 2024
The way-out ruler of Scorpio is your long-time pal.
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Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Aug. 2024
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First Known Use
1954, in the meaning defined above
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“Way-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/way-out. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
way-out
adjectiveˈwā-ˈau̇t
: very unusual or odd
way-out ideas
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