: a demonstration of goodwill and enthusiasm for the beginning of a new venture (such as a trip)
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Good Omens is getting a final send-off, albeit a truncated one.
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Peter White, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
Their last album as a band, Made in the A.M., is full of these kinds of final send-offs.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
The bears were given a warm send-off, with staff members cheering and waving banners as the trucks left the facility.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
Many of us carry the vestiges of this feeling as adults or as parents who’ve taken on the mantle of school-supply shopping and giddy first day send-offs.
—Christine Pride, SELF, 25 Sep. 2024
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Peter White, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
Their last album as a band, Made in the A.M., is full of these kinds of final send-offs.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
The bears were given a warm send-off, with staff members cheering and waving banners as the trucks left the facility.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
Many of us carry the vestiges of this feeling as adults or as parents who’ve taken on the mantle of school-supply shopping and giddy first day send-offs.
—Christine Pride, SELF, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Send-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/send-off. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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