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View synonyms for nose out

nose out

verb

  1. to discover by smelling
  2. to discover by cunning or persistence

    the reporter managed to nose out a few facts

  3. informal.
    to beat by a narrow margin

    he was nosed out of first place by the champion

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Mr Miller calls this a technology that is “only starting to poke its nose out behind the door” within different segments of the publishing industry.

From BBC

“I will raise my children the way I want. They’re our children and it’s our choice. He needs to stick his nose out of our business.”

“I think he should keep his nose out of Michigan politics.”

From Salon

“I had to punch a moose in the nose out there,” he told a camera crew, but didn’t offer other details.

Boy, that Vladimir Putin just can’t keep his nose out of American presidential elections.

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