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Inside the meeting room in Russell Senate Office Building, Republican senators and administration officials, like Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, were outlining the first steps of what’s being called “phase three” legislation addressing the coronavirus pandemic.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2020

These people, the agile Pulcinellas of Manhattan's Grub Street,* were outlining the policy of a magazine they had decided to publish— The New Yorker.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it must not be forgotten that in all such statements both were outlining only what appeared to them to be a natural and inevitable evolution.

From Violence and the Labor Movement by Hunter, Robert

Just as the dawn wind was rising, though, and the cottonwoods were outlining themselves against the eastern sky, stumbling footsteps near the tent wakened both Diana and Na-che, and they opened the tent flap, hastily.

From The Enchanted Canyon by Morrow, Honoré

They were outlining a trip to the Orient together, when the back door blew open with a terrific bang, and a wind swept into the lodge with a coldness which chilled them both.

From Doom of the House of Duryea by Peirce, Earl