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  • If the road to acquiring our own McMansions in some gated utopia proved bumpier than expected -- fraught with existential burn-outs, quarter life crises and disappointing starting salaries -- our parents were more than happy to do whatever it took to get us over the humps, including subsidizing apartments, graduate schooling, credit card bills and horizon-broadening backpacking trips through Europe and Asia.

    Meghan Lewit: What Research on Millennials Misses 2010

  • I had friends who were popular, burn-outs, cheerleaders, nerds, goth and so on.

    High School Confidential | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • Should car fans go all the way to Australia just to soak up the beer, boobs and burn-outs at the SummerNats?

    How to Spin for Fun and Profit 2009

  • Those old 60's communist burn-outs hoping for "days of mass resistance" must have been disappointed at the anemic turnout.

    Sound Politics: Anti-"Reptilians" Must Hie To High Desert Battleground 2006

  • These flush-to-ground patio pavers are composed of LEDs powered entirely by the sun – meaning no burn-outs, bulb replacement or extra charges to those ever-increasing energy bills.

    SOLAR-POWERED SUN BRICK | Inhabitat 2006

  • I had friends who were popular, burn-outs, cheerleaders, nerds, goth and so on.

    High School Confidential 2007

  • Warning lights flashed orange, signaling imminent burn-outs in the shield generators.

    Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

  • Warning lights flashed orange, signaling imminent burn-outs in the shield generators.

    Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

  • Are they two very different people who have connected on a level new to both of them, or are they emotional burn-outs who aren't even talking about the same subject and have misapprehended mild sexual attraction for a moment of truth?

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • Folks ranging from computer executives to elderly women to church leaders are participating in psychotherapy enhanced by psychedelics, typically thought of as party enhancers for teenagers or burn-outs.

    Lucy In the Sky, With Therapists 2000

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