How to Use off-the-record in a Sentence

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• At one point during our off-the-record conversation, his pager beeped.
  — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2024
• There was an off-the-record discussion, then Patton’s clerk called the case.
  — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026
• Board members will meet three times a year to provide off-the-record feedback and story ideas to reporters.
  — Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
• The goal is to explore the dispute through candid, off-the-record conversation.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 Oct. 2025
• Yahoo invited me to an off-the-record dinner at Le Veau d’Or.
  — Max Tani, semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
• At the resort, Thomas gave a speech at an off-the-record conservative conference.
  — Justin Elliott, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• The documents, or portions of them, were also shared with several reporters on an off-the-record basis.
  — Tracy Wang, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2023
• Those same sources say liberties were taken with the Atlantic piece, including that key off-the-record details and quotes were used on the record.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 25 July 2023
• Our conversations are studded with long, off-the-record interjections.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• The first is stealthy, an off-the-record session with the Round Table, a group of government, academia, and industry types.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
• The comments were alleged to have happened in an off-the-record conference in chambers, so they weren’t recorded, nor was a transcript produced.
  — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
• What happened next during the hearing — which the report states is key to the case — was an off-the-record sidebar between Joseph and the attorneys.
  — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 6 Nov. 2025
• Each board will meet three times a year for off-the-record discussions facilitated by Journal Sentinel reporters.
  — Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
• Those conversations are a delicate dance of on-the-record and off-the-record context about roster usage, player health, play calling and game strategy.
  — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Sometimes these occur during our quarterly CEO forums, in public but off-the-record exchanges.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
• In her off-the-record remarks that day, the vice president made a passing reference to the 34 individuals who once lived on the property against their will.
  — Robert Draper, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• The paper reported that Williamson and Wilkins never met, had one off-the-record phone call, and exchanged emails during the course of Williamson’s reporting.
  — Staff Author, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
• Odds are, though, that Israeli authorities won’t soon release evidence to back up any off-the-record charges that Arouri was tied to the three teens’ kidnapping and murder.
  — Matthew Levitt, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2014
• The situation has reached a strange netherworld of off-the-record confirmations and denials where one set of sources says one thing and another says the opposite, and most likely no one is telling the whole truth.
  — Jem Aswad Variety Entertainment News Service, al, 23 Aug. 2023
• In one of the company’s off-the-record labs, On executives showed how the foam was made — a process that drew on years of material science and biomechanical research.
  — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026
• But through time, trust and many off-the-record conversations, those six people helped create a foundation that would eventually lead them to the CEOs.
  — ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
• But when the conversation slides into off-the-record, her hands flutter in front of her, moving rapidly from tucking a strand of straight hair behind her ear to adjusting the Libra ring on her hand.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
• Through voiceover, Wang shares details from off-the-record conversations which unveil Payá’s ambiguous feelings about the former president.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
• In contrast, the modern ombuds is an independent, confidential, impartial, and off-the-record resource for today’s workers.
  — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 5 May 2023
• In February, Carro held a 27-minute, off-the-record bench conference during an otherwise public hearing.
  — ABC News, 3 June 2026
• Sacramento Kings media day Monday apparently came with some off-the-record player reviews that accidentally went on the record.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026
• Her leadership has been instrumental in halting off-the-record intergovernmental meetings.
  — Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
• The Ukrainian president made the remarks during a two-hour off-the-record meeting with reporters on Saturday, with a transcript released publicly on Sunday.
  — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
• Puck promises off-the-record conversations with editors in their top subscription tier, and Lauren Sherman often recaps her off-the-record dinners on her podcast and in her column.
  — Max Tani, semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
• Anthony’s lawyers also accuse prosecutors of breaking an off-the-record agreement about character evidence and other alleged acts unrelated to the murder charge.
  — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026