OUT OF Synonyms: 11 Similar and Opposite Words

out of

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as in from

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Recent Examples of out of Take the eyeballs out of the fridge and squeeze the icing onto the balls, making squiggles from the top center. — Candy Hom, AJC.com, 23 Oct. 2026 After more than a decade out of the limelight and away from his wardrobe of high-visibility, low-practicality clothing, Sacha Baron Cohen‘s Ali G is back with his first film in almost 25 years. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026 Alexander Skarsgård, who plays—as the title suggests—a man made entirely out of wicker, was only supposed to show skin from the waist up. — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026 Critics couldn’t place the work, finding it out of step with modernist abstraction. — Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 23 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for out of

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The government also promised 15,000 additional places in higher education, introduced across the next two years, and increases in student grants linked to inflation from the start of the next academic year.

— Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
The lawsuit is different from previous legal action against the president -- first, in that the plaintiffs are ordinary citizens, shifting the focus from news gatherers to news consumers, and thus implying a much larger pool of stakeholders.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026