off the record
Example Sentences
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He paused to verify that the event was off-the-record before commenting on Powell, who has had a public battle with Trump and is set to be succeeded by Kevin Warsh atop the Federal Reserve:
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
During that interview, he took an off-the-record call with Petro.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
Mr. Lewis said he’d had an off-the-record conversation with the reporter, whom he described as “an activist, not a journalist.”
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Or do they treat the beef as a kind of off-the-record exhibition game, as Lamar says in “Meet the Grahams” he initially intended?
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2024
“No amount of bombing can end the war,” an exhausted-looking McNamara told a few reporters in an off-the-record discussion in February.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
