put off

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Recent Examples of put off The young girl was supposed to have had surgery Friday, but that was put off for a couple of days because of an infection. Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2025 Volumes dropped sharply in the 1980s and 1990s as environmental protections were tightened and more areas were put off limits to logging. Matthew Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025 These are the six most common reasons why so many people are putting off parenthood, according to the study. 1. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025 He’s put off plans to buy a new packaging machine, and is reducing investment for now until the uncertainty clears. Alana Semuels, Time, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for put off
Recent Examples of Synonyms for put off
Verb
  • But on Wednesday, April 16, ticket holders received a message that the event was postponed.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • This reflects the trend of more Americans either opting not to have kids or postponing them until later.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The walls were blank; administrators had recently removed art work depicting eight female activists, including Angela Davis, the Marxist prison abolitionist, and Grace Lee Boggs, the Asian American Black Power activist.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • However, after this portion’s absence from the livestream was noted by NME, the group noted that this instance wasn’t the only part of their set that was removed from the broadcast.
    Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Vara, like many of her readers, is both enchanted by the web and disgusted with the companies that control it.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The judge, though disgusted at her antics, still stands firm in his decision to give the prosecution access to those records because the reports about the divorce are still accessible to the jury.
    Ayan Artan, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • There's also great uncertainty as Trump seeks negotiations with China and begins talks with other counties whose larger tariffs were delayed by 90 days.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Pincus filed a brief on behalf of the American Public Health Association, which argued that invalidating the mandate could increase the cost of preventive care and the cost of health care overall, as patients would delay treatment for preventable diseases and emergencies.
    Joseph Choi, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • As Saxon and Lochlan try to decipher what happened between them, we are asked to think about why we’re aroused (or repulsed) by it.
    Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Even as the Russians massed forces and achieved a three-to-one advantage in troops in Kursk late last year, the Ukrainians held on—deploying mines, drones and artillery to repeatedly repulse Russian mechanized assaults.
    David Axe, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Lynch could return to challenge or put over someone for the U.S. title.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Because his drug was a gene therapy, public grant money and private philanthropy played an especially central role, with the National Institutes of Health alone putting over $450 million into science related to SMA.
    Robin Fields, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • About 70 people have been sickened by bird flu, mainly poultry and dairy workers, CDC data shows.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
  • So far there have been no children sickened in connection to the recall, the federal agency is reporting.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Companies like Resource Royalty LLC have made these investments more accessible, particularly for those utilizing 1031 exchanges to defer taxes and diversify their portfolios.
    Fred Hubler, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The price tag of Black motherhood isn’t just about dollars and cents, but about dreams deferred and choices no one should have to make.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Put off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/put%20off. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

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