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finish out en · VERB
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(transitive) To finish up, to complete, something previously started, particularly a time frame.
Don accepted the new job, and they decided to let Billy finish out the school year before he and Jan moved to their new home. Even though it was a hundred-mile drive one way, Jan and Billy were there for Don's first sermon in the new[…]
2019 September 30, David Ford, How You Finish Is What Counts, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:A former Spitfire pilot in the Royal Air Force who had been shot down over Germany and finished out the war in a POW camp.
2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 82:They finished out the season in the NBL as the first all-black team in organized professional basketball, with Gates as player-coach.
2021, Syl Sobel, Jay Rosenstein, Boxed out of the NBA, page 25:
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