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in and out

[in-uhnd-out, -uhn-] / ˈɪn əndˈaʊt, -ən- /










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He receives a stream of calls in his windowless office, stepping in and out to speak to teams hunched over screens in a command post.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Olympia, his elusive love and sporadic muse, flits in and out of his life as she works her way up the tiers of the art world’s ziggurat.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Grutman popped in and out of the space the entire time we were there, rather than letting an assistant and public relations executive oversee the video crew rearranging furniture in his living room.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

A new group of seven or eight “employees” was seen regularly going in and out of the building carrying a large number of suitcases.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

“It’s too cold. There’s too many bugs. There’s too many tourists. There’s no movie theater. There’s no roads in and out of town. There’s no girls.”

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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