offload

Example Sentences

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Private-equity firms paid big prices for companies before interest rates rose and are struggling to offload them profitably.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Investors may have been scrambling to be the first to offload shares ahead of what they saw as a fresh catalyst for a selloff.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

"If you look at the athletes France have, if we kick a little too far, or if there's an offload, they come alive," Tandy told the BBC.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

With replacement half-backs Crowley and Jamison Gibson-Park having injected much-needed tempo into the Irish attack, Ireland's best moment came when McCloskey's neat offload sent Baloucoune over.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

But even the best software isn’t smart enough to assign trees reliably, so writers cannot offload the task of minding the tree onto their word processors.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker