How to Use buyout in a Sentence

buyout

1 of 2 noun
  • Whose buyouts might be too much to deal with?
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • So how do schools find the money to pay these big buyouts?
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • And if so, what does the buyout look like in his contract?
    — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • Don’t take this to mean all buyouts are workable.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • But fewer laid off, we're told, for each who takes buyout.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 27 May 2026
  • How does a buyout-proof contract work?
    — James Mirtle, New York Times, 19 June 2026
  • The buyout he would be owed by the school if he is fired without cause?
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Byrne said the buyout in the first years are among the largest in the country.
    — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Which would short-circuit his buyout.
    — Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Look at Chegg, which had no buyout and no leverage to pin it on.
    — Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The salary is less newsworthy than the length of the deal and the buyout.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The cloud play would be the biggest leveraged buyout in months.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Plus, such space below the tax could come in handy on the buyout market.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2026
  • This is a lease buyout, and not all car lease contracts have this option.
    — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2023
  • While Williams waited for the buyout to go through, his bills didn’t stop.
    — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • So how would a $6 million buyout be offset by the same school?
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Can the Heat get a player like that on the buyout market?
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2026
  • But not all buyouts are created equal.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Those who prefer not to work in the office can explore a buyout.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The transaction is one of the largest leveraged buyouts of the past decade.
    — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The damage made the case for a buyout harder to ignore.
    — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Beaton is one of three board members who voted against the buyout.
    — Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The agency has lost hundreds of staff from layoffs and buyouts.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Some were fired, some took a buyout package, and others simply walked away.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Tang has a buyout of more than $18 million per the terms of his contract.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2026
  • His buyout stands at $22 million.
    — Chase Goodbread, The Tuscaloosa News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • That deal, the biggest shoe buyout in history, closed last month.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Even with that … $50 million buyout?
    — Sam Settleman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The buyout is spread over twice the remaining length of the contract, so in this case, eight years.
    — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • So buyout pledges are rising at an increasing rate.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026

buy out

2 of 2 verb
  • Many people choose to buy out their leases at the end of their term.
    — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Don’t make the mistake of buying out the whole pet store on day one.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Not many get to buy out $98 million stars to set up their plan.
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Edwards was bought out in 1996.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Before our eyes, the rule of law has been bought out by the rule of billionaires.
    — Linda Thompson Gonzalez, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Say a rich alum offers a couple million to help buy out Hoke.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Campbell was bought out in June 2024.
    — Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • One arm of the dealer group could buy out the car, and the other arm could get you into a new car.
    — cleveland, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Or buy out an entire state, like, say, Rhode Island.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • Fans and resellers have been buying out the concert merch at every show.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • By that time, though, Johnston had been bought out by Adidas.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The move came about a month after it was bought out by Sycamore Partners.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
  • An option holder needs their options triggered, lapsed, or bought out.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • The Wizards bought out his contract last summer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • But Ratcliffe is on record as wanting to buy out the Glazers.
    — Adam Crafton, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
  • North Carolina bought out many hog farms in flood-prone areas, but not poultry farms.
    — Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2025
  • If no deal can be reached by the deadline, Sochan is a candidate to have his contract bought out.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The effort paid off when Castres Olympique, a top-tier team, bought out his contract.
    — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Will the distant members of my family want to be bought out rather than stay as shareholders?
    — Robert F. Mancuso, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Levy is the stand’s second owner, having bought out the founders in 2015.
    — Jimmy Jellinek, SPIN, 27 Apr. 2026
  • By the end of episode two, the podcast studios get bought out and Franklyn and Carrie are out of work.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 22 June 2023
  • Disney has extra cash on hand to buy out Comcast’s stake in Hulu.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Now, Swift faces the option of buying out Wade’s claim to the name or fighting the case in court.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The business may not have the liquidity to buy out a partner’s spouse in case of that partner’s death.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The brand’s loyal fan base, which has bought out its entire range of nutrient-rich soup stocks online for the past five years.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Most often, a bank loans the company money to buy out the shareholders.
    — Bill Keen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Duchene scored two goals against his old team after being bought out by the Predators last summer.
    — Teresa M. Walker, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
  • At the end of the term, the customer can either buy out the lease at a preset price or return it to the dealership.
    — Nora Eckert, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Faber said that the assumption is that Disney will buy out Comcast’s stake next year.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In several upcoming years, the Tigers have four non-league games on the slate and will have to boot or buy out some.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025

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