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Lexicographical Neighbors of

out of action
out of all proportion
out of bounds
out of breath
out of breath(p)
out of business
out of character
out of commission
out of condition
out of context
out of control
out of date
out of doors
out of fashion
out of fix
out of focus (current term)
out of gas
out of gear(p)
out of hand
out of house and home
out of it
out of joint
out of kilter
out of line
out of luck
out of nothing
out of nowhere
out of one's depth
out of one's face
out of one's head

Literary usage of

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Folk-Song Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"But there is a means to produce a better effect than by putting the image out of focus, namely, by the interposition of a slightly opaque medium ; and the ..."

2. The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses by William Horatio Bates (1920)
"THE MIND OUT OF FOCUS is far more variable. It reflects, in fact, the loss of mental control which is responsible for the error of refraction. ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"A careful examination of the image and the out-of-focus circles will enable us to determine with which of these sources of error we have to deal. ..."

4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1911)
"To digress into a comparison of the brothers is to put the whole parable out of focus, it is to do something in which we get no help from Jesus, ..."

5. Camera (1907)
"Putting out of focus, unfortunately, is a very indefinite suggestion. What shall we put out of focus ? If the tip of the nose is in focus the ears will be ..."

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