How to Use off-the-record in a Sentence

off-the-record

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• The first is stealthy, an off-the-record session with the Round Table, a group of government, academia, and industry types.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
• At the resort, Thomas gave a speech at an off-the-record conservative conference.
  — Justin Elliott, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• Those same sources say liberties were taken with the Atlantic piece, including that key off-the-record details and quotes were used on the record.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 25 July 2023
• Email address: At the resort, Thomas gave a speech at an off-the-record conservative conference.
  — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2023
• The comments were alleged to have happened in an off-the-record conference in chambers, so they weren’t recorded, nor was a transcript produced.
  — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
• The documents, or portions of them, were also shared with several reporters on an off-the-record basis.
  — Tracy Wang, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2023
• In her off-the-record remarks that day, the vice president made a passing reference to the 34 individuals who once lived on the property against their will.
  — Robert Draper, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• The situation has reached a strange netherworld of off-the-record confirmations and denials where one set of sources says one thing and another says the opposite, and most likely no one is telling the whole truth.
  — Jem Aswad Variety Entertainment News Service, al, 23 Aug. 2023
• But when the conversation slides into off-the-record, her hands flutter in front of her, moving rapidly from tucking a strand of straight hair behind her ear to adjusting the Libra ring on her hand.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
• Our conversations are studded with long, off-the-record interjections.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 12 June 2024
• The heated exchange focused on whether prosecutors could have an off-the-record discussion with their own FBI witness about the use of confidential informants.
  — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2023
• The recent surge of Norwegian literary and film exports has helped usher the capital out of the shadows of neighboring Copenhagen (broadly worshipped) and Stockholm (lots of off-the-record comments about Stockholm).
  — Sloane Crosley, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2023
• In contrast, the modern ombuds is an independent, confidential, impartial, and off-the-record resource for today’s workers.
  — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 5 May 2023
• Speculation has swirled around the site of a Hashed al-Shaabi militia facility after a senior administration official mentioned it during an off-the-record briefing.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Feb. 2024
• But the folks in one Foggy Bottom neighborhood who convened in their alley found something: an intimacy and kinship that is rarefied in this off-the-record, don’t-use-my-name, I-can’t-compromise-my-security-clearance pocket of Washington.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• Other trips to the nation’s capital included an exclusive, off-the-record dinner for the Alfalfa Club, a social organization of politicians and corporate leaders, on Jan. 28.
  — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2023
• The last week of silence, off-the-record background briefings, and vague and contradictory statements from spokesmen and low-ranking officials has only served to sow confusion, mistrust, and fever-swamp conspiracy-theorizing.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 2023
• In quiet conversations and off-the-record gatherings, Democratic officials frequently acknowledge their worries about Biden’s age and sagging approval ratings.
  — Lisa Lerer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• Her leadership has been instrumental in halting off-the-record intergovernmental meetings.
  — Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
• During an off-the-record period of an evidence suppression hearing in which the defense was to argue the defendant did not voluntarily waive his right not to participate in a custodial interview, Brewer attempted to get the judge’s attention.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024