tear-out
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tear-out
adj. use of verb phrase tear out
Example Sentences
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Instead of tear-out pages in a printed booklet, he said, the goal is “to create a digital platform that will deliver relevant content into the lives of the students every day and in every way.”
From Washington Times ● May 18, 2022
In the early days of writing “Weather,” Offill imagined it as a survival manual for her daughter, cramming it with information about every possible catastrophe, with tear-out sheets on practical tips.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
Take Martha Stewart Living, which hasn’t yet given up on its tear-out recipe cards even now that it has iPad apps full of recipes.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2011
The book also features a tear-out seven-day menu listing a week's meals and snacks.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2010
‘Neither,’ observes he elsewhere, ‘shall ye tear-out one another’s eyes, struggling over “Plenary Inspiration,” and suchlike: try rather to get a little even Partial Inspiration, each of you for himself.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
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