as in spends
to hand over or use up in payment
we shelled out an obscene amount of money for those concert tickets
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Recent Examples of shells out
Google already shells out billions to Apple each year to be the default search engine on iPhones.
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Samantha Subin, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
Samantha Subin, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shells out
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Research from It’s Time To Log Off found that the average person spends one full day each week online, while 34% of people had checked Facebook within the last 10 minutes.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
16 May 2026
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Research from It’s Time To Log Off found the average person spends one full day each week online, while 34% of people had checked Facebook within the last 10 minutes.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
16 May 2026
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The album’s name, Arirang, pays tribute to a treasured Korean folk ballad of the same name, which was famously the country’s first song, sung by Korean men, ever recorded (it was preserved for posterity by American ethnologist Alice Fletcher in 1896).—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
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The equity initiative, which was launched as a pilot in 2021 and later expanded, pays ambassadors $6,000 per year to serve as a liaison between the city and their respective communities.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
20 May 2026
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Opportunities to attend the Rolling Stone Residency will be available to Rolling Stone Readers as well as for redemption through SkyMiles Experiences, Delta’s platform that gives its loyalty Members access to once-in-a-lifetime experiences.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
18 May 2026
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The design also gives Reebok a baseline to grow from.—
Tim Newcomb,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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“Shells out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shells%20out. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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