blowoff

Example Sentences

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“Even before the pandemic, people thought of Friday as a kind of blowoff day. And now there’s a growing expectation that you can work from home to jump-start your weekend.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022

“I did kind of think it would be a blowoff class.”

From Washington Post • May 16, 2019

The war, as President Kennedy sees it, is not likely to take the form of a big nuclear blowoff, although he intends to be prepared for one.

From Time Magazine Archive

No sooner had the three school boards acted than the pressures began building toward a blowoff.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or perhaps blowoff is happening, but the gases lost to space are being replenished by others released from the satellite’s interior.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan