[Ads-l] "time out" (active verb)

Charles C Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Fri Aug 27 00:21:50 UTC 2021


In recent months I've noticed TV network news anchors (especially David Muir of ABC, but others as well) saying that such-and-such a correspondent would "time out" an occurrence, meaning "report on" or "tell about" it.  I wonder where that construction came from, how old it is.

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