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On March 8, 1971, eight people — Davidon, the Raineses and Forsyth among them — broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania and made off with more than 1,000 documents.
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Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
In other security news, hackers hit identity protection company Aura this week, making off with over 900,000 records of its users.
—Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
So social media made off with most human attention, not just for kids but for older people as well, but not as much.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
There’s plenty of profit to be made off the infectious enthusiasm for the game and the frills that the flush player can furnish their setup with, but while the new crop of mahj-centric entrepreneurs are gaining, is anyone losing?
—Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 10 Mar. 2026
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Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
In other security news, hackers hit identity protection company Aura this week, making off with over 900,000 records of its users.
—Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
So social media made off with most human attention, not just for kids but for older people as well, but not as much.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
There’s plenty of profit to be made off the infectious enthusiasm for the game and the frills that the flush player can furnish their setup with, but while the new crop of mahj-centric entrepreneurs are gaining, is anyone losing?
—Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 10 Mar. 2026
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“Make off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20off. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.
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