come-outer

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Noun
  • In an effort to figure out who the traitor on his team is, Ethan Hunt needs the NOC list, which contains the identities of every American spy.
    Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 27 May 2025
  • The Confederacy — traitors — were fighting to keep my ancestors enslaved.
    Hashim Coates, Denver Post, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • But Buckley also welcomed literary talent to his pages: Joan Didion, Arlene Croce, Garry Wills, George Will, the literary critic Hugh Kenner, and John Leonard, a Harvard dropout who joined National Review at nineteen and went on to become a legendary editor of the Times Book Review.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • From dropout to overachiever For most of her life, Mui struggled to fit into society’s mold.
    Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Set in a crumbling Japanese metropolis rebuilt after a devastating explosion, Akira follows teenage rebels Kaneda and Tetsuo as secret government experiments unleash psychic forces capable of unmaking the world.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
  • In response, the commanders decide to meet in Washington D.C., and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) finally chooses a side once and for all and gives up their plan to June (Elisabeth Moss) and the fellow rebels.
    EW.com, EW.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • The other senators are immediately abuzz, and Mothma has to be smuggled out of the spherical senate chamber to avoid abduction by a turncoat.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 21 May 2025
  • Its players are turncoats whose legacies are forever stained.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.
    Marc Caputo, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
Noun
  • This is a remarkable turnabout, but its roots lie in the vaunted deal that Ramaphosa helped make to end apartheid.
    Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
  • This represents a turnabout from the pattern of the last 25 years, when there was little evident resistance from bond buyers as the U.S. government looked to borrow.
    Neil Irwin, Axios, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • For decades, the Philippine armed forces battled insurgents in the southern reaches of the archipelago.
    ELY RATNER, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2025
  • The insurgents have become the establishment, and the purpose of the establishment is always to protect itself.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 23 May 2025
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“Come-outer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/come-outer. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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