out of the running

1. see under in the running.

Example Sentences

One previous candidate dropped out of the running after a disastrous hearing before the council, and another would-be commissioner quietly withdrew from running earlier this year.

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In fact, Lanning is already making it clear that he isn’t counting his vanquished opponent out of the running for a title.

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Four years before that they started with two home draws and effectively took themselves out of the running.

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Nor did the fact that two top candidates, Texas’ Troy Tulowitzki and UC Santa Barbara’s Andrew Checketts, pulled their names out of the running soon after USC expressed interest.

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Iredell was pretty sure that this, among other things, would keep popes out of the running.

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