as in to move
to leave a place often for another
let's push off while it's still early enough to beat the evening rush
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The final reading of the budget has been pushed off to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, to give the auditor’s office time to adjust department budgets to reflect the raises.
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Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2024
One concern Fed officials may have is that steeper cuts could, as Bowman expressed, incentivize spending that consumers are currently pushing off, which is helping keep inflation in check.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
Think of pushing off with the back foot rather than overextending the lead foot.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
For years, this optimism has been pushed off so far into the future, that stockholders had not appeared to meaningfully price in the timing of when that demand might really kick in.
—Bryce Erickson, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
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Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2024
One concern Fed officials may have is that steeper cuts could, as Bowman expressed, incentivize spending that consumers are currently pushing off, which is helping keep inflation in check.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
Think of pushing off with the back foot rather than overextending the lead foot.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
For years, this optimism has been pushed off so far into the future, that stockholders had not appeared to meaningfully price in the timing of when that demand might really kick in.
—Bryce Erickson, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
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The 8-0 Tigers, having defeated the defending national champions from Harding in the seventh game of the season, had moved up to No. 3 in the country in the American Football Coaches Association's NCAA Division II poll.Rex Nelson, arkansasonline.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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The hearing Monday took place after Foglietta paused the case Thursday while Musk tried to move the lawsuit to federal court, but the federal judge denied the billionaire’s request on Friday, allowing the litigation to move forward in Philadelphia.Alison Durkee, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, Biden’s refusal to exit the 2024 presidential race after a disastrous initial debate performance in June kicked off a whirlwind season that gave rise to Harris.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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July 10: Democratic lawmakers begin publicly urging Biden to exit the 2024 race.Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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Dobbins then spied an open backfield after Austin Ekeler departed the Chargers to sign with the Washington Commanders as a free agent.Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 7 Nov. 2024
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Now, the sun meets the skies quite early but departs just around when most of us get off work.Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
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Curves on Surfaces The mystery confronting them was how to get the amplitudes that would usually come from the more intricate space-time trajectories, those with numerous splittings and mergings.Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
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Determined not to romanticize or fetishize his subjects, Fukunaga confesses to struggling during the editing process, and not always getting the calls right.Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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Tough way for the drive to end for Philly, which opted to kick a short field goal instead of going for the tie.Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Filippone recently sold a condo whose agent went into contract, then didn’t send in his client’s application.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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The surgeon removes a small portion of the disc, or shock absorber, that has squirted out and is pushing on a nerve and causing pain.Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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This means that photons can push on an asteroid to change its spin: the rock absorbs light from the sun, then reemits that energy as infrared light.Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
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This allowed several cables to pull out of the sockets, ultimately causing the platform to plummet into the reflector more than 400 feet below, according to the report.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The merger process, initiated at the end of 2023, stretched on for months and at one point Redstone pulled out of a previous agreement with Skydance at the 11th hour.Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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Now called Opportunity Village, the initiative aims to help unsheltered individuals get off the streets.Hema Sivanandam, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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As indicated by Monday’s show, this last leg of the Luck and Strange tour got off to a very terrific start.David Chiu, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Push off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/push%20off. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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