inside out

adverb

Definition of inside outnext
as in systematically
with attention to all aspects or details after 20 years of employment there, he has come to know the company inside out

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Recent Examples of inside out The service Staff know the Madinat Jumeirah complex inside out, happily pointing you to any of its 50-plus restaurants and arranging complimentary buggies or abras to get you there. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 With the sheet inside out, place one hand in each of these two corners. — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 26 Sep. 2026 The Sri Lanka–born, San Diego–raised 28-year-old UC Berkeley dropout bends her generation’s activist streak inside out and roasts from a place of familiarity. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026 The opposite of the gotcha interview is the expert interview, when Chotiner lets people who know their trades inside out explain them to his devoted readership. — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for inside out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inside out
  1. systematically
  2. thoroughly
Adverb
  • Police arrested him again in April 2023 and started combing through the forest more systematically and exhuming mass graves.
    — Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The Embodied Neurocomputation Framework treats this as an engineering problem, systematically optimizing information entering the neural network.
    — Mike McRae October 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of systematically
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  • But an intravenous dose reaches the bloodstream more thoroughly.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The character was so thoroughly developed that Yerou and her team could hit the ground running on a marketing campaign.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of thoroughly

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“Inside out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inside%20out. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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