work off
Example Sentences
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Sanchez added in Cyprus that "we don't work on the basis of emails, we work off official documents and the position that the United States government has set out in this case".
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
He thinks this is partly because AI took so much scut work off people’s plates that their days became consumed by high-level thinking—and they were burning out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
She scored in the final of the Euros and found her groove for her club, playing a crucial role throughout the season in front of goal and with her work off the ball.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025
New Mexico became the first state to ban lunch shaming in 2017, and others followed with laws against tactics like throwing away food, stamping students’ hands or making them work off debt with “chores.”
From Salon • Sep. 11, 2025
She was moving all over the house, opening and shutting doors, even moving furniture around to work off anger.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
