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as in fulfills
to carry through (as a process) to completion
the cast and crew were able to bring off an eccentric but engaging reinterpretation of King Lear
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as in rescues
to remove from danger or harm
had it been alerted in time, a nearby ship might have been able to bring off all of the passengers from the Titanic
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brings off
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And if some don’t feel like The Mandalorian fulfills that mission,there’s always Starfighter (also greenlit under Kennedy).—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026 -
Meanwhile, José Arcadio Segundo fulfills the patriarch's dream of connecting Macondo to the outside world.—
Veronica Villafañe,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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Louis rescues a young girl and brings her back to Lestat to make her into a vampire.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
6 June 2026
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The foundation is a nonprofit that tends the herd’s medical needs and rescues those in jeopardy.—
Mark Price
June 3,
Charlotte Observer,
3 June 2026
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Grande performs the track while sitting on a stool with one leg tucked under her.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
7 June 2026
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Research generally shows Medicare Advantage performs well on preventive care and some utilization measures.—
Eve Cunningham,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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Zegna typically saves its collection debut for Milan Fashion Week, and by moving it to the west, the show delivered an exclamation point for Los Angeles as the third high-profile runway presentation in the city after Hermès in Bel-Air last night and Dior at LACMA last month.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
6 June 2026
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Rather than measuring activity like tokens consumed or lines of code, Wu said, Cognition estimates the number of human engineering hours its agent actually saves and backs that estimate with a refund.—
Jasmine Wu,Deirdre Bosa,
CNBC,
5 June 2026
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Backrooms accomplishes this record in its first 10 days at the box office (if not 11).—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
6 June 2026
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That’s exactly what Habeck accomplishes with her debut novel, in which a man named Lewis is slowly transforming into a great white shark.—
Tessa Yang,
PEOPLE,
2 June 2026
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Lin does almost everything at a high level, executes the small things extremely well and plays the game with a rare quality, maturity and detail for a D his age.—
Scott Wheeler,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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The state superintendent of public instruction is a nonpartisan office that oversees the California Department of Education and executes the state Board of Education’s policies.—
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
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Their antagonism peaked at the end of Season 3, when Deborah achieves her dream of landing a late-night chair and Ava blackmails her way into the head-writer job.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Ultimately, all this achieves is making Davis feel like the odd-one-out, spending most of her arc running around with her side-piece rather than working with her neighbors.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Rather than attacking all rapidly growing cells, as chemotherapy does, the drug targets a key cancer-driving pathway known as KRAS, which is involved in more than 90% of pancreatic tumors.—
Luzdelia Caballero,
CBS News,
5 June 2026
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David Fine as Scorpius does an enormous amount of heavy lifting by injecting urgency and pathos, despite his character’s timid personality.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
4 June 2026
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“Brings off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brings%20off. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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