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Recent Examples of pair off
Eventually, Annie and Link pair off and things get hot and heavy in the Jungle Room.
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Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Wrestlers pair off, practicing moves at light speed.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Stay in the neutrals family by topping this grey wool pair off with a simple white button-down and lightweight black jacket.
—Christina Holevas, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2026
But in this season, competitors will pair off in teams of two, a touch that is new to the holiday adaptation.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
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Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Wrestlers pair off, practicing moves at light speed.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Stay in the neutrals family by topping this grey wool pair off with a simple white button-down and lightweight black jacket.
—Christina Holevas, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2026
But in this season, competitors will pair off in teams of two, a touch that is new to the holiday adaptation.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pair off
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Contestants are eliminated when no one chooses to couple up with them during a customary re-coupling ceremony.—
Heather Bushman,
IndyStar,
26 Mar. 2026
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These atomic structures serve as stable quantum bits (qubits), which can store and process quantum information and couple it to light particles.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Mar. 2026
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To understand what purpose these receptors might serve, Villar and his colleagues coaxed a pair of California two-spot octopuses to mate in the lab.—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
2 Apr. 2026
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All the wolves had left — but two, and those two were mated.—
Frank Glaser,
Outdoor Life,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Pair off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pair%20off. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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