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as in exits
to leave a place often for another
we simply walked out after waiting half an hour for someone to come and serve us
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Recent Examples of walks out
Nora, of A Doll’s House, is a wife and mother who walks out on her family, society be damned.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Shannon moans right about the time Jenn walks out to see what the commotion is all about.
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
No one walks out on Cristina Yang!
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Jackie then leaves the bathroom and walks out into the streets of Manhattan.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
With each employee who walks out the door, operational decay follows, with remaining employees often disengaging from their work.
—Tara Fitzpatrick-Navarro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Shannon moans right about the time Jenn walks out to see what the commotion is all about.
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
No one walks out on Cristina Yang!
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Jackie then leaves the bathroom and walks out into the streets of Manhattan.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
With each employee who walks out the door, operational decay follows, with remaining employees often disengaging from their work.
—Tara Fitzpatrick-Navarro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for walks out
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Rhincodon typus, to use their scientific name, eat their ample fill by ram filter-feeding, vacuuming up gallons of water to strain out small prey before the water exits their gills.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
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The secondary rainbow is caused by a second reflection inside the droplet, and this ‘re-reflected’ light exits the drop at a different angle—50 degrees instead of 42 degrees for the red primary bow.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Unless Congress somehow strikes an agreement to fund the government by Thursday, Hjaltalin and millions of other Californians will not get their next month’s SNAP benefits starting next week.—
Kristen Taketa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Oct. 2025
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The agency reported that lightning most often strikes people who participate in outdoor recreational activities or work outside.—
Perry Vandell,
AZCentral.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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Fans will just have to be patient to see if anything moves forward.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
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If his execution moves forward, Jennings will be the 16th inmate executed in Florida this year, double the state's previous record.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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Below, Paul walks us through it all.—
Margaux Anbouba,
Vogue,
28 Oct. 2025
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Everyone gathers at one home for appetizers, then the group walks to another for the next course, and so on.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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An American Airlines Airbus A321 taxis at San Diego International Airport as a United Airlines airplane departs on August 24, 2024 in San Diego, California.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2025
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The full Interconnect Tour departs from Deer Valley Resort in Park City, leading skiers on a traverse along the Wasatch Mountain range with visits to Park City Mountain Resort, Solitude, Brighton, Alta, and Snowbird.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Oct. 2025
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The story goes that at the homecoming pep rally in 1995, then-student body president Michael Torregrossa was pushed into the pond by other student government members.—
Jordy Fee-Platt,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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These spots are all gone, but now, due in part to the rise of #BookTok, where genre fiction often goes viral, booksellers are once again getting more targeted in their approach.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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After Lazio at the weekend, the algorithm gets kinder.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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The likelihood of lightning increases as a thunderstorm gets closer and reaches its highest point when the storm is directly overhead.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Universal opted to spend several scenes with the paranormal investigator whose face peels off in the bathroom mirror — a minor character in the story with a high gore factor.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Walks out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walks%20out. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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