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zoned out

verb

past tense of zone out

as in hacked (around)

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As the talk wound down, the party outside the Louis XIII was in full swing.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026
As Mipcom, the annual content market and conference in Cannes, wound down on Wednesday, Lucy Smith, the event’s chief, revealed attendance figures for this year’s edition.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

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Installing and maintaining them can get expensive, however, and some fire-prone areas are too thickly vegetated or rainy to benefit from their surveillance.

— K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 20 July 2026
We were parked alongside a remote and heavily vegetated waterway called Furlong Creek, which was the site of another one of Johnson’s experiments.

— Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025

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The price of computers and smartphones would skyrocket as electronic manufacturers idled their factories.

— Dan Blumenthal, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
In August, Silfab briefly idled production and later furloughed some workers because of production material shortages the company said would last three to four weeks.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2026

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