1
as in to postpone
to assign to a later time
never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
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2
as in to remove
to rid oneself of (a garment)
put off your coat and stay awhile
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3
as in to disgust
to cause to feel disgust
she was put off by his blatantly sexist attitude
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Recent Examples of put off
Recent surveys indicated that businesses are delaying investments and seeing revenue decline as customers put off purchases, in part due to tariffs.
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Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
The decision to put off retirement ensures Smith can add to all of those totals while continuing to chase an elusive Super Bowl.
—Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 13 Mar. 2025
Health insurers are seeing an uptick in claims submitted by patients that executives have said is driven in part by a pent up demand for medical care put off during the Covid-19 pandemic.
—Bruce Japsen, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Upon her arrival, she’s put off by the presence of Camille’s two close friends Isaac (Jeremy O. Harris) and AJ (James Cusati-Moyer).
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2025
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Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
The decision to put off retirement ensures Smith can add to all of those totals while continuing to chase an elusive Super Bowl.
—Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 13 Mar. 2025
Health insurers are seeing an uptick in claims submitted by patients that executives have said is driven in part by a pent up demand for medical care put off during the Covid-19 pandemic.
—Bruce Japsen, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Upon her arrival, she’s put off by the presence of Camille’s two close friends Isaac (Jeremy O. Harris) and AJ (James Cusati-Moyer).
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for put off
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But on Wednesday, April 16, ticket holders received a message that the event was postponed.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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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
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Quantum internet removes that risk by ensuring only the sender and receiver can read a message, so not even the hosting platform can access it.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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Even so, merely delaying the change doesn't help others and, frankly, customer service could still suffer longer term.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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However, the brothers will still have a resentencing hearing soon, provided it does not get delayed again.—
Kate Nalepinski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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Lynch could return to challenge or put over someone for the U.S. title.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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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
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About 70 people have been sickened by bird flu, mainly poultry and dairy workers, CDC data shows.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
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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
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Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the carrier will defer deliveries of new aircraft if they are hit with tariffs.—
Dan Mangan,Kevin Breuninger,Jeff Cox,Christina Wilkie,Erin Doherty,Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
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Beyond the Status Quo: Rebuilding Strategic Autonomy For decades, both major political parties have deferred substantive structural reform.—
Joel Shulman,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Put off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/put%20off. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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