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Imposing the personality cult upon the state is designed not only to burnish the leader’s image, but to create opportunities to smoke out dissidents.—Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025 By 2010, a knit face covering couldn’t even hide her beauty—dewy skin and smoked out eyes—at Vogue’s 90th Anniversary Party.—Essence, 4 Dec. 2025 Incensed, Lee delivers Dale’s notes to Pearl, hoping to smoke out the only other person who can finger Frank for the murder: Betty Jo.—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025 The level design occasionally takes inspiration from the multiplayer, where the solution to smoking out a sniper is usually to bring an entire building down.—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for smoke out
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