How to Use off-load in a Sentence
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The plant would use the rail yard to load and off-load raw materials, according to city zoning documents.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2026
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The canister was still wedged in my crotch, off-loading its contents like a homemade Roman candle.
—Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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As a result of the mismatch between buyers and sellers in these six cities, sellers are adjusting their expectations and cutting prices to off-load their properties.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
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Under those guidelines, farmers who want to retire or off-load unproductive bogs without selling to developers can instead convert their land to wetlands with the help of the state.
—Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2025
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Off-loading tasks such as writing code might result in cognitive atrophy over the long term, and that is problematic in itself, but off-loading ethical decisions will result in an atrophy of moral reasoning, which is worse.
—Ted Chiang, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
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The lawsuit accuses the park of negligence, including failing to ensure that the ride was operating properly and failing to train ride attendants on how to off-load guests when the ride doesn’t fully enter its off-loading platform.
—Eve Chen, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
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In contrast, the Ally Solos Glasses off-load processing to the user's smartphone, making the glasses significantly lighter and more comfortable.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
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But lately, the tide has gone the other way, with Caruso recently off-loaded to MondeVita Italy, 13 years after Fosun made its first investment in the brand.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Shumet Amdemichael, the director of the nonprofit Mercy Corps’ Nigeria programs, told me that his organization may off-load generators to local hospitals.
—Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
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Following quickly on the heels of spinning off Versant Media earlier this year, Comcast is now off-loading the entirety of NBCUniversal.
—Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
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The report describes a kind of doom loop of AI dependence, where students increasingly off-load their own thinking onto the technology, leading to the kind of cognitive decline or atrophy more commonly associated with aging brains.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 14 Jan. 2026
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Anthropic has raised concerns over students off-loading cognitive work to AI systems, and OpenAI has acknowledged that dependence on AI tools more generally is a problem.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
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But in subsequent years, as Giuliani’s reputation and finances plummeted amid numerous lawsuits and legal cases — at one point, his lawyer told the court Giuliani had $57,000 in unpaid phone bills, which doesn’t even seem possible — he was forced to off-load his real estate to raise cash.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 14 Aug. 2025
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Portfolio Arbitrage Accelerated After a quiet first-half 2025, M&A activity in beauty ramped up, as companies look to either off-load underperforming businesses or add brands for inorganic portfolio expansion.
—Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 24 Feb. 2026
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