left off

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Midfielders Tanner Tessmann and Diego Luna are left off the roster, while Gio Reyna, Chris Richards and Alejandro Zendejas make the cut.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

Footballers are like ships in the night sometimes - you can lose touch with old team-mates for ages but when you meet up, you just pick up where you left off.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

What we do know is the series isn’t picking up where it left off.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

In recent weeks, other Wall Street analysts have picked up where Jonas left off, with some telling investors they see some logic to a merger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Indeed, his own music, to some extent, takes over from where Wagner’s Parsifal left off - although, like Liszt, Mahler had a thoroughly cosmopolitan, non-nationalistic outlook and career.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall