go off
Example Sentences
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If you download one of these programs, give it a task and go off to do other things, the agent will continuously do work for you without further instruction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“You’re at the height of your abilities and the world is telling you that you can go off and disappear.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
"This winter they will likely migrate and go off again, and next spring they will try and rear chicks on that nest."
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Ahmed: I feel like anything I say, there’s like a bomb on my leg that might go off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
"What bloody-fool things people do. Why didn't she go off with some of her own people? Or you?"—he slurred that over—"or me? Why not me?"
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
