work off
Example Sentences
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What to Do: Rent a pontoon boat on Lake Wallenpaupack, then work off the camp-candy crash with a hike through Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Sanchez added in Cyprus that "we don't work on the basis of emails, we work off official documents and the position that the United States government has set out in this case".
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
New Mexico became the first state to ban lunch shaming in 2017, and others followed with laws against tactics like throwing away food, stamping students’ hands or making them work off debt with “chores.”
From Salon • Sep. 11, 2025
It said Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat had now agreed to "increase the use of facial verification checks and fraud detection technology" to ensure only registered account holders could work off their platforms.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025
She was moving all over the house, opening and shutting doors, even moving furniture around to work off anger.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
