Usage of Off of
The of is often criticized as superfluous, a comment that is irrelevant because off of is an idiom. It is much more common in speech than in edited writing and is more common in American English than in British.
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Lembas was created with an AI model based off of a decade of protein interaction data collected by two of its other cofounders, Maayan Gal and Dr. Daniel Bar, researchers and professors at Tel Aviv University.
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Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Soar, released today (June 9), builds off of the singer’s previous solo work.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
Directed by Francis Lawrence from a script by Billy Ray based off of Collins’ recently released novel of the same name, the film is due in theaters Nov. 20, 2026.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 7 June 2025
This duplicity and playing different patrons off of each other would be carried on by his political heirs.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
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Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Soar, released today (June 9), builds off of the singer’s previous solo work.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
Directed by Francis Lawrence from a script by Billy Ray based off of Collins’ recently released novel of the same name, the film is due in theaters Nov. 20, 2026.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 7 June 2025
This duplicity and playing different patrons off of each other would be carried on by his political heirs.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
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“Off of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/off%20of. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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