out of control
Example Sentences
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But once tertiary infections appear - friends of friends, or contacts of contacts - the outbreak slips out of control unless authorities impose much tougher measures, including lockdowns.
From BBC
The key takeaway for policymakers is how narrow the window for action can be before an outbreak spirals out of control, the researchers say.
From BBC
Bass had ousted Crowley less than two months after the Palisades fire, citing the LAFD’s failure to properly deploy resources ahead of the winds and potentially have a chance to extinguish the fire before it exploded out of control, an issue that was exposed by a series of reports in The Times.
From Los Angeles Times
But you do need to stabilize the largest expense you have before it gets out of control.”
From MarketWatch
Those widely different results reflect how Kast was able to capitalize on the feeling in Chile and throughout much of South America that migration—mostly people fleeing political repression and an economic crisis in Venezuela—had spiraled out of control.
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