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noun

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Recent Examples of kick off
Verb
Sure, the official sale kicks off on Tuesday, March 25, but savvy shoppers know that early bird discounts on all-things travel are already up for grabs. Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2025 Morning Miles Run Club will kick off the event with a 9am run. Mckenzie Rankin, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
Riley showed off his speed with a 96-yard kickoff return for a touchdown against Utah State. Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 31 Mar. 2025 The kickoff time will be announced once television partners make their selections in late spring. Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kick off
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kick off
Verb
  • The European Union has begun to issue its U.S.-bound officials burner phones, for fear of surveillance, the Financial Times reported.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Max subscription plans begin at $9.99 a month with ads while ad-free subscriptions cost $16.99 a month.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The saxophonist in his band also died, according to manager Enrique Paulino.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Iconoclastic critic, art historian, and photographer Max Kozloff, who served as Artforum’s executive editor in the 1970s before turning to his own artistic practice, died on April 6.
    News Desk, Artforum, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • At the beginning of last year, Del Rey shared a snippet of the ballad without any context.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2025
  • At the beginning of the 2005 season, then–NBA Commissioner David Stern implemented a dress code.
    D. Watkins, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, Smash The Musical starts just well enough, and stays there.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Japanese Breakfast will play Coachella on April 12 and April 19 before embarking on an international tour starting April 23.
    Abigail Lee, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • And bond market yields fall by about 150 basis points (1.5 percentage points).11 The Fed Fed Chair Powell says the Fed is waiting for the softening survey data to translate into hard data before moving toward lower interest rates.
    Robert Barone, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Those numbers dropped to 23.2 points and 8.2 rebounds on 48% FG in 2023-24 and then fell drastically this season to 19.0 points and 5.9 boards on 42% FG shooting.
    Eric Wong, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Today’s college students are thinking about careers long before commencement rolls around.
    Christine Y. Cruzvergara, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The commencement announcement comes about two months after Texas State University announced plans to award Sheridan an honorary doctorate.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Around the same time, the company commenced an aggressive play for the college sports insurance market, introducing a novel contract protection product for NIL collectives while also trying to get into the critical injury coverage niche.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Production on the second season of Nobody Wants This commenced in March 2025.
    Michael Nied, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • More importantly, failing to articulate an acceptable mistake at the onset will leave your team without the language to define which levers were most important to drive business goals.
    Rebecca Shaddix, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • For example, in 2020, markets saw their second-worst day of the year on March 12 at the onset of the Covid pandemic.
    Lorie Konish, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025

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“Kick off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kick%20off. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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