pegged out
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“The easiest thing would have been for Robert to plow on until he truly pegged out and by which time the estate probably would have been run into the ground or mismanaged,” Bonneville says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
Whereas the billionaire lifestyle is pegged out around a notion of absolute certainties, a sense of being continually replete, recumbent on a giant mattress made of veal, helicoptered from triple-glazed pyramid to glass-walled enormo-drome.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2013
Or the one where a magnificently orange wannabe Wag pegged out during her own dinner party.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2010
Indo-China adjoins Red China, but the border has never been pegged out.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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