work off

Example Sentences

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He thinks this is partly because AI took so much scut work off people’s plates that their days became consumed by high-level thinking—and they were burning out.

From The Wall Street Journal

King's pioneering work off the court paid off: women now receive equal prize money to the men at each of the four majors.

From Barron's

But what they can give us is a baseline to work off, she says.

From BBC

As the chart above shows, a stock doesn’t have to sell off sharply for overbought conditions to be worked off, as “it can simply consolidate for a period,” Morrison wrote.

From MarketWatch

I appreciate that stat because when I started out in management a million years ago, I worked off the basis that a clean sheet was worth twice as much as scoring a goal.

From BBC