What is "opted out"

Usage examples of "opted out".

Evidently he didn't follow through on that, but the French are now wondering if someone might have opted out.

Our two oldest sons found marriages at last and Teddy, thirteen, was opted out.

He was tired, tired enough that he'd opted out the year before, wanting nothing more than to wake up in the same bed every morning.

Because, as a way of daily life it was hooey, and people just opted out.

The sound of the outer door suggested Tank had opted out of further involvement.

Once I got the message, I'd opted out of the situation, but it left me feeling bad.

Anyone who opted out would be seen by his officer as something less than a man, and that would be doubly painful since Ramirez had led his men, shared every hardship, and sweated with them through every step of training.

Since Willow had been returned, he assumed she had opted out of Tezcatlipoca's inner circle, too.

The Pokeno Killer, as he had been called, had apparently opted out with his belt, or if they had taken that, his own pair of pants.

Indeed, many opted out from the beginning, preferring to spend all their time in games and, eventually, the Dream.