deep-sixed
Example Sentences
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There were no cannonballs Saturday, only a franchise that once again was deep-sixed.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025
And they buried this man’s story for a long time because nobody could figure out how to tell it without losing money or losing their career or getting themselves deep-sixed some kind of way.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2020
Both George Washington and James Madison made nominations that were deep-sixed for political reasons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2016
“I confronted Mr. McCamman about why he deep-sixed the report until after AB 711 had been voted on, and he — I think we caught him flat-footed — he said, ‘Yes, we deep-sixed it.’
From Washington Times • Dec. 2, 2014
The list of motion pictures whose plots get deep-sixed by modern technology goes on and on.
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2011
