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singles out

singles out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of single out.

Meaning of single out

Verb

single out (third-person singular simple present singles out, present participle singling out, simple past and past participle singled out)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To select (someone or something) from a group and highlight them or treat them differently.
    • Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag.
    Synonyms:
    mark out, pick out

Questions about singles out

What is singles out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Singles out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of single out.

Words near singles out in the dictionary

  1. singles bar
  2. singles bars
  3. Singles Day
  4. singles net
  5. singles nets
  6. singles out
  7. singles stick
  8. singles sticks
  9. singles up
  10. Singles' Day
  11. singlestick

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Adapted from Wiktionary: singles out (page history and authors); single out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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