Usage of Off of
The of is often criticized as superfluous, but off of is an idiom, and idioms follow their own logic. Use of off of is much more common in speech than in edited writing and is more common in American English than in British English.
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Davison had shown promise as a playmaker and looked like a possibility off of Udoka’s bench.
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Rahat Huq, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
The analyst added that recent checks suggest skepticism around the durability of Palantir’s enterprise customers on the commercial side, who appear to be reassessing or moving off of the company.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
Even more kudos go to the camera operators who dangled off of ropes to film the climb.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
The appeals judges in the case, however, said that Judge Everett did take Hardy's neurodivergence into consideration, but dropped a year off of his sentence due to a technicality from a 2017 law on stalker sentences.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
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Rahat Huq, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
The analyst added that recent checks suggest skepticism around the durability of Palantir’s enterprise customers on the commercial side, who appear to be reassessing or moving off of the company.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
Even more kudos go to the camera operators who dangled off of ropes to film the climb.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
The appeals judges in the case, however, said that Judge Everett did take Hardy's neurodivergence into consideration, but dropped a year off of his sentence due to a technicality from a 2017 law on stalker sentences.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Off of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/off%20of. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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