off-load
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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The company’s prospects were so bad that the banks that loaned Musk billions couldn’t even off-load the debt.
From Slate • May 28, 2025
The excellent Paul Vaughan had begun that move with a sharp off-load, and he grabbed the second try for himself, powering over from dummy half despite the presence of three tacklers.
From BBC • May 11, 2025
That chair lift, the complaint said, was more than 50 years old and particularly dangerous because of an elevated off-load and down-load ramp tower structure.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023
“There’s this idea that we can off-load some of our cognitive processes on these systems,” says Lauren Rhue, an information systems scientist at the University of Maryland, who has studied racial bias in emotion AI.
From Scientific American • Dec. 20, 2021
"I'm going down to try and off-load my own supplies tonight, before it's too late."
From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas
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