1
as in leaves
to end a usually intimate relationship with
before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off
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as in skips
to fail to attend
blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time
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The set up leaves California vulnerable to the unpredictable nature of the stock market, dramatic swings in revenue and, in recent years, reliant on poor projections.
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Durica said the event that shaped the world leaves behind much more than a board game and a marvel of engineering.
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An advisor who skips all of that is missing the point entirely.
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Fountain Life skips walk-in pricing almost entirely.
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News 12 reported that the boy's body had been discovered at a waste collection center in Stamford, having been brought there by a truck that dumps trash and recyclables there.
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Towns dumps the ball off to Mitchell Robinson for his easiest two points of the night.
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Memorizing where relationships happen in every country misses the point.
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Yet that misses the gentle buzz of excitement when Secrets visited.
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Meta ditches Ray-Ban and adds Kylie Jenner.
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Fulda all but ditches his ambitious partner Chaton (Vincent Dedienne), in order to team up with Stéphane to get to the bottom of the endless pig-slaughter, and to put paid to the local superstition that Brun’s ghost may be the culprit.
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“Blows off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blows%20off. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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