Example Sentences

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Companies are outlining their 2026 plans—and hiring isn’t one of them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

“They have been sort of laying this foundation at the beginning of these relatively more reliable witnesses who are outlining this scheme,” Krissoff said.

From Salon • May 3, 2024

Some are outlining different strategies to “get us out of this forever-boosting kind of a situation.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2022

Though you are outlining your presentation rather than writing a full script, it is a good idea to write your thesis so that you clearly identify your aim.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

But, practically, when you are outlining a light object defined against a dark one, the line must go outside of it; and when a dark object against a light one, inside of it.

From Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 by Ruskin, John