out-of-sight 1 of 2

slang

out of sight

2 of 2

phrase

as in only
having no equal or rival for excellence or desirability The drummer for that band is out of sight.

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of out-of-sight
Adjective
Organizations continue to wrestle with how to monitor out-of-sight employees’ performance. Harvard Business Review, 12 Feb. 2025 Don’t make this an out-of-sight-out-of-mind thing. Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 Start by buffing a small, out-of-sight area with any cleaning solutions listed to make sure there are no reactions or damage. Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2024 Organizations continue to wrestle with how to monitor out-of-sight employees’ performance. Harvard Business Review, 12 Feb. 2025 Start by buffing a small, out-of-sight area with any cleaning solutions listed to make sure there are no reactions or damage. Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2024 For many of us, pasteurization is an out-of-sight, out-of-mind process that’s easy to take for granted or even forget about. Sarah Garone, Health, 6 Dec. 2024 All items should be returned to their spots—not just dumped in an out-of-sight area. Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2024 There had been reports of other fish species following sea robins around, perhaps deputizing the legged fish as scouts to track down out-of-sight prey. Gary Stix, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for out-of-sight
Adjective
  • This is an excellent time to invest, pitch a creative idea or spruce up your portfolio.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 5 June 2025
  • Greenery also makes an excellent addition to a resortcore space.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Hurricane season lasts through November, but travelers who don't mind a higher risk of rainy skies will quickly find that Jamaica can be a beautiful destination year-round.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2025
  • Look at this, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful building.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Esquivel didn’t allow an earned run in a terrific game-one performance against Lovejoy.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 June 2025
  • With no wind or other elements for the players to confront, both produced some terrific tennis for stretches.
    Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Though not a traditional kids’ movie by any stretch, there’s still a lot of wonderful Dignan-esque scheming involved in Mr. Fox (George Clooney) stealing from the adjoining farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, and the film has the warmth of an old Rankin-Bass production.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025
  • Tanja Caldwell designed the wonderful costumes for Mara Block Ali’s Netflix series, Forever.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Adjective
  • Trailing types make a lovely ground cover at the edge of a rain garden.
    Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2025
  • Nini Berndt makes lovely work of this bruise-writing, the kind of devastation that leaves you with your fist pressed to your lips, aching hard for everyone involved.
    Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Once again, the guest cast is superb: Bill Camp, sporting a magnificent handlebar mustache, is gloriously gruff as Wall Street power broker J.P. Morgan, who joins George in his railroad scheme.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 June 2025
  • The subterranean concert hall has superb sound and aesthetics—the work of the Italian-Danish duo GramFratesi, who drew inspiration from Epicurean philosophy, ancient Greece and the history of artistic expression through the ages—and it’s arranged with great precision and attention to detail.
    Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • No putt was more important than his 20-foot par putt up the ridge on No. 9 to finish off a great round the right way.
    Doug Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2025
  • The idea was to allow developers to build more profitable market-rate apartments using greater height and density while providing financial support to balance out the lower rents for workforce tenants.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • Randy Breed: Mixed Age: 10 months Randy is a fabulous guy who navigates the world around him with charisma and positive energy, despite being deaf.
    Trish Stinger, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
  • The film is notable for a dodge ball scene that goes disgustingly awry, a long gay kiss — an unheard-of smooch in 1981 — between Andrew and a bully, and for Arngrim’s goth-twink fabulous costumes, including the silkiest cape.
    Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 2 June 2025

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“Out-of-sight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/out-of-sight. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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