take off (on)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for take off (on)
Verb
  • This behavior mimics their wild ancestors, who would ambush prey from above or perch in trees to avoid danger.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • For example, might the animals mimic the noise to ask for the object?
    Melissa Hobson, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • During her opening monologue, Madison — who was previously parodied by SNL cast member Heidi Gardner earlier in the season — poked fun at her stripper skills in the award-winning project.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Schiaparelli’s latest show took a more traditional turn, its goal to be making modernity out of antiquity, but up until this show, Daniel Roseberry has taken great care to make a body of work at Schiaparelli that honors and practically parodies the intricate details of human body features.
    Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The film satirizes the star-making machinery of Hollywood, with Harlow playing a popular actress attempting to find romance amid the madness of the industry that surrounds her.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Black Mirror evokes anthology series like The Twilight Zone and Amazing Stories with speculative, offbeat tales that draw upon sci-fi, thriller, and horror tropes to satirize culture and interrogate moral and ethical quandaries.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This is how and why cinema could shatter the Aristotelian unities, resurrect orality in the age of literacy, and become the technological medium par excellence imitated by new mediums like video games and VR.
    Big Think, Big Think, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Moreover, these models can imitate individuals' or industries' writing styles and wording.
    Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Trump administration has been targeting individual law firms that include his political opponents, reaching agreements with them to provide pro bono services to the Trump administration.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Many of their cases have targeted the same kind of administrative power that President Trump himself is determined to stamp out—including his all-out assault on independent watchdogs and agencies.
    Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Aesthetically, each episode has its own look tied to the personality of the character explored, which allowed Pixar to use lots of caricaturing and cartoony effects through mixed media.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The connection between Nafisi and Bahri is presented with complexity and without sentimentality, neither papering over political differences nor caricaturing Bahri as a generic revolutionary.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • An electronic score by John Carroll Kirby apes the sound of the era but devolves into abstraction as the story develops into something darker.
    Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The knockoff was a flimsy, unusable slab of rubber dotted with magnets; the companies aping Agarwal's idea are seemingly unable to replicate the manufacturing process that Agarwal has spent years perfecting to finally be able to widely ship Polygons today.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • He was often harassed and got into fights most days.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • People experiencing homelessness have frequently camped in the area, using or selling drugs and at times harassing residents living and working nearby, according to emails between eight business owners and Boise officials, obtained by the Idaho Statesman through a public records request.
    Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Take off (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take%20off%20%28on%29. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

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