How to Use farm out in a Sentence

farm out

verb
  • There are still a lot of larger farms out here that are still not developed.
    — Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 11 June 2024
  • The training job might even be farmed out to distributors who sell wine to restaurants.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The streaming era farmed out those choices to a variety of platforms.
    — Joel Mathis, theweek, 23 May 2024
  • But lawyering is also about judgment—that part can’t be farmed out to AI yet.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
  • That could reduce availability and raise the price of some coffee types and put farms out of business.
    — Paul Mwebaze, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But more and more of these judgments are being automated and farmed out to algorithms.
    — Nir Eisikovits, Fortune, 7 July 2023
  • The beef, pork and lamb come from the shop's small farm out in Palo Verde, about 40 miles west of Phoenix.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 15 June 2021
  • Parishes have the authority to farm out their tax collection duties.
    — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Many health plans also farm out medical reviews to other companies that employ their own doctors.
    — Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Actual influencers could also farm out some of their engagement to their AI avatars.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Blue Cross and other health plans often farm out those reviews to companies like AIM.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Feuer, whose office made the decision to farm out the investigation to the law firm, declined to be interviewed or to comment.
    — Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Still, whether companies and agencies farm out their security or do it themselves, someone needs to be on watch to keep information safe and secure.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Some hosts ask guests to fill out their own addresses on envelopes during the party, while others farm out the task entirely to unsuspecting relatives.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • Most of that daily work is farmed out to an obscure government agency known as the Administrative Office.
    — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The demand, even if lessened, will still warrant offering larger sizes, but some marquee names now want to farm out their plus-sized clothing to outside vendors instead of making their own label.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Sadly, a 1994 fire put the farm out of business, but the family continues to run an apparently thriving bed and breakfast at the same site.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, insurers and reinsurers are continuing to farm out large chunks of their natural-disaster tail risk to the capital markets.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 9 June 2024
  • Twelve graduates signed for City at a time when there was no integrated club such as FCN, but none fulfilled their potential and were farmed out on loan.
    — Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
  • At some point, the hospital decided to farm out the service to Shady Grove Fertility, but the quality of service had been set.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Why on Earth, or any other planet, would the Mavericks farm out the debut of its franchise-altering player to a smaller arena 35 miles to the west of its home?
    — Mac Engel october 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In recent decades, the conventional auto wisdom had it that manufacturers should concentrate on design and final assembly and farm out the rest to suppliers.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The basic idea of farming out postal operations and allowing private players to pocket the savings is a solid one, but only if the postage discounts correspond to actual savings.
    — David Williams, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Except that with many NFT games, players are encouraged to farm out their assets to others, and exchanging those assets for real money down the line is totally above-board.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Not only does this approach farm out enforcement to entities who are inherently better capable of detecting and denouncing each other’s problems or misdeeds.
    — WIRED, 6 July 2023
  • Yi also received assistance with worker’s compensation, which is not handled by Paramount Television Studios but is farmed out to a third party.
    — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
  • That’s the question at the heart of two lawsuits that are attempting to set a new precedent in Kenya, which is the prime destination for tech companies looking to farm out digital work to the African continent.
    — Billy Perrigo, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Large companies like Microsoft often farm out legal work to dozens or even hundreds of firms and may move business depending on circumstances, like pricing, expertise or potential conflicts.
    — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • His eight appearances, before eventually being farmed out on loan to Caykur Rizespor in Turkey, were entirely unimpressive.
    — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • On the vegetable front, Monbiot profiles a fascinating farmer, Iain Tolhurst, who has created a remarkable 17-acre farm out of land that’s 40 percent stone.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 31 July 2023

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