as in wearing
to use up all the physical energy of
keeping up with twin toddlers wears me out
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Recent Examples of wearing out
Banging, rattling, grinding, squealing, or buzzing noises often indicate that something inside the system is loose, damaged, or wearing out.
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Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
29 June 2026
The chiptune soundtrack is energetic without wearing out its welcome, and the writing keeps things light with short diary entries and snarky bits of dialogue.
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Jason Bennett,
Arkansas Online,
28 June 2026
One is something breaking, something wearing out, something being damaged through use, and then there’s also collision.
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Joel Feder,
The Drive,
10 June 2026
As plastics break down, whether that be through washing polyester clothing or wearing out our tires, microscopic particles of plastic shed, small enough to be picked up and transported by the air.
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Simmone Shah,
Time,
7 May 2026
If a device frequently drops connection and can be fixed with a wiggle, there’s a good chance something is wearing out in the cable.
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Bestreviews,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
Time is short, our aging Mother Colorado River is simply wearing out.
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Dp Opinion,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
Around 80% or lower means the battery is wearing out.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
31 Mar. 2026
Will the novelty of an MLB franchise hosting home games in California’s capital for the first time fade in the A’s second season, wearing out like the pitcher’s mound in the eighth inning?
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Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2026
Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
29 June 2026
The chiptune soundtrack is energetic without wearing out its welcome, and the writing keeps things light with short diary entries and snarky bits of dialogue.
—
Jason Bennett,
Arkansas Online,
28 June 2026
One is something breaking, something wearing out, something being damaged through use, and then there’s also collision.
—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
10 June 2026
As plastics break down, whether that be through washing polyester clothing or wearing out our tires, microscopic particles of plastic shed, small enough to be picked up and transported by the air.
—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
7 May 2026
If a device frequently drops connection and can be fixed with a wiggle, there’s a good chance something is wearing out in the cable.
—
Bestreviews,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
Time is short, our aging Mother Colorado River is simply wearing out.
—
Dp Opinion,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
Around 80% or lower means the battery is wearing out.
—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
31 Mar. 2026
Will the novelty of an MLB franchise hosting home games in California’s capital for the first time fade in the A’s second season, wearing out like the pitcher’s mound in the eighth inning?
—
Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wearing out
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Doctors Without Borders health workers wearing personal protective equipment move through the isolated red zone to monitor patients, provide medical care and ensure sanitation at the Ebola Treatment Center in Munigi in Congo on June 2, 2026.
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Rodríguez Castro can be seen wearing a New York Yankees shirt, moving suggestively to driving percussive beats, punctuated by catchy, syncopated vocals.
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Murdaugh, once a powerful personal injury attorney in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, was convicted in 2023 of killing his wife, Maggie, 52, and their younger son, Paul, 22, at the family’s hunting estate in June 2021.
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Shiite and Sunni Muslims have been killing each other for centuries, and the status of women in some Muslims countries is deplorable.
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And more than a decade into the LHC era, neither frontier has come close to exhausting its potential.
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That matters because unloading mixed freight can be exhausting work.
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In the Los Angeles Times, Seema Mehta and Nicole Nixon report that Steyer’s ability to appear everywhere ended up tiring out voters.
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Meanwhile, Shenzhen startup EngineAI can be forgiven for tiring out its PM01 humanoid.
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Pictures posted online showed a fire burning out of control at the top of the building on the central Shevchenko Boulevard.
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Generation Z came up with active-shooter drills, a pandemic that shut down their schools, climate dread, nonstop digital comparison, shaky job markets, and a front-row view of older workers burning out.
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The pig men were in the trailer, knocking out the pigs with anesthesia.
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Strong storms with fierce winds raced across the Carolinas on Saturday, knocking out power to 22,000 Duke Energy customers.
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Daeron has not yet appeared in House of the Dragon but is mentioned in the second season’s sixth episode when Alicent asks her brother Gwayne (Freddie Fox) how Daeron is doing in Oldtown.
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Instead of independently designing and optimizing individual components and then connecting and calibrating them, GM can now simultaneously balance airflow and refrigerant behavior with cabin comfort, doing in days or hours what used to take months or weeks.
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Then came this spring’s historic and devastating floods across northern Michigan — in some areas, for the first time anyone can remember — swamping homes, pushing dams to the brink of failure and washing out roadways.
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Then came this spring's historic and devastating floods across northern Michigan — in some areas, for the first time anyone can remember — swamping homes, pushing dams to the brink of failure and washing out roadways.
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