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bout

(= turn) (sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive a period of illness a bout of fever a bout of depression a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers) (= bust) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking they went on a bust that lasted three days

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Simple sentences

A fussy referee can ruin a bout.
The fighter toughened up for the bout.
A bout lasts about five minutes.

Movie subtitles

Christ never said nothin' 'bout no clitoris!
Listen y'all how 'bout exploring that secret passage?
How 'bout that one?
I'll be right with ya. - How 'bout me handling it?
How 'bout you, Dallas?
How 'bout making some coffee for the boys?
How 'bout sitting out the next one, babe?
How 'bout Old Matt?
How 'bout it, boys?
Looks like, you lost the bout.
I'll play this bout first.
How 'bout that point you were comin' to?
How 'bout a dance?
How 'bout a great big smack for Pepper?
We signed for the championship bout next month.
Well, a nice little bout between a couple of lady palookas.
I had a drinking bout with the agent of the Bank of Madrid.
But that was next to the last bout.
I didn't see that bout. I read about it in the morning papers.
Now how 'bout diggin' a little coal?
I'm not talkin' 'bout writing books. I'm talking about killing you!
How 'bout that, Mr. Lacenaire?
How 'bout some ice pops?
How 'bout welcoming our guest?
The bout off?
Well, how 'bout that drink now, Portugee?
How 'bout one?
How 'bout me handling it?
How 'bout a statement, Mayor? -Don't pester me now.
But I be done seen 'bout ever'thing When I see a elephant fly.
How 'bout new tires?
I didn't see that bout.
Up to now we've had the preliminaries, but tonight's the main bout.
How 'bout that?

News and current affairs

Further procrastination on interest-rate normalization by the ECB could well lead to a nasty bout of inflation.
But can this criticism be constructive, not a bout (pleasurable, of course) of Schadenfreude?
Indeed, today's bout of fiscal stimulation seems historically better founded than the brief episode of stability in the 1990s.
The countries of emerging Europe must go through a similar bout of introspection, but the fact that they were saved from worst-case scenarios seems to make it more difficult to launch this process.
A few (not many) worry that this bout of government spending will result in inflation.
Nonetheless, Turkey's bout with political instability has damaged its foreign policy and international standing.
Given the improbability of such an outcome, Europeans must brace themselves for another bout of political and legal turmoil.
Will America face a bout of inflation?
In 1980, following a severe bout of stagflation, Ronald Reagan routed Jimmy Carter.
Indeed, Europe is one shock away from outright deflation and another bout of recession.
Nevertheless, as the events of recent months have shown, emerging markets are not immune from the current bout of global financial turmoil.
Tadese is suffering from his second bout of malaria this year.
This implies that, unless the US resumes its role as consumer of last resort, the latest bout of financial-market jitters will weaken the global economy again.
CHICAGO - Recently, a number of commentators have proposed a sharp, contained bout of inflation as a way to reduce debt and reenergize growth in the United States and the rest of the industrial world.
The Shia of the Mahdi Army defeated Iraq's Sunnis in the last bout of fighting, and thousands of Iraqi Sunnis, under the so-called Awakening Movement, have rallied to the side of the United States forces and have fought against Al Qaeda.
WASHINGTON, DC - America's recent bout of dysfunctional politics and the eurozone's on-again, off-again crisis should, on the face of it, present a golden opportunity to China.
But the changed international climate, and the possibility of a bout of severe dollar weakness, could convince the US to go along with a conversion scheme that would alleviate excessive pressure on the dollar.
Yet the trend over the past century has been towards a continuous increase in the number of small states, mainly owing to nationalist revolts against multi-national empires: the latest bout of state creation followed the disintegration of the USSR.
Luckily, the other half of that saying also appears to be true, for Moscow's most recent bout of anti-Semitism is a case of history repeating itself, not as tragedy, but as farce.
Given his rightist pedigree and revisionist views about Japan's wartime history, the region is bracing itself for a new bout of diplomatic turbulence surrounding his address.
A few Russians have indeed been arrested and extradited to the US: the arms dealer Viktor Bout, for example, who is charged with providing aid to terrorists, or the hacker Vladimir Drinkman, who is accused of stealing millions of credit card numbers.

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