brings off

verb

present tense third-person singular of bring off
1
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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2
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 brings off But McGuire also brings off-the-books experience that should serve her well at Cascale, whose 300-plus members largely hail from the apparel, footwear and textiles sectors, including brands, retailers, manufacturers, NGOs and academic institutions. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brings off
  1. fulfills
  2. rescues
  3. performs
  4. saves
  5. accomplishes
  6. executes
  7. achieves
  8. does
Verb
  • Securing public money for them raises issues over church-state separation but fulfills a longstanding goal for Christian conservatives, who lobbied for this funding.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Ashley Gearhardt, who studies and treats food addiction at the University of Michigan, points out that social media fulfills our base need for socialization in the same way that ultraprocessed products fulfill our need for food.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of fulfills
Verb
  • Channel ports, housing for asylum seekers and even the lifeboat charity that rescues people in danger at sea have been targeted by anti-migrant protests encouraged by far-right activists.
    — Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • As per the synopsis, that changes when her reckless nephew impulsively rescues a baby gorilla from the window of a London department store and, ignoring her protests, leaves her no option but to take him in.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of rescues
Verb
  • The company now performs in a basement and is equipping an additional bomb shelter.
    — HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Among them was her friend Olivia Rodrigo, who booked Johanningmeier, who performs as Devon Again, for an early-day slot.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of performs
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  • DeleteMe zaps your listings from data brokers, leaving you refreshed, unbothered, and in your lane, and saves you 20% with coupon code PCMAG.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Pressing the New Roll button saves one roll, and allows the user to start recording another one.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of saves
Verb
  • Artistically and emotionally, Fatherland accomplishes more in its 82-minute runtime than any two-hour-plus movie released this year.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Seattle accomplishes this by masterfully disguising defensive assignments before the snap, which can force Mahomes to diagnose where to go with the football only after dropping back.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of accomplishes
Verb
  • How can Christians, who both grieve and celebrate the sacrifice of Jesus, support a flawed justice system that inevitably executes innocents?
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Some of the chip designs that the company executes, like those which animate an iPhone or a Mac, are inestimably precious trade secrets.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of executes
Verb
  • So fill a surface with words, more words and larger words than are necessary; fill a surface with something—anything—that achieves a minimal degree of individuation as well as commercial persuasion.
    — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • The five-phase program will begin with initial criticality, the point at which a reactor achieves a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of achieves
Verb
  • And a reminder that these millionaires are playing a child’s game, because no one relishes it with quite the joy and verve and passion and emotion and occasional tantrum like Doncic does.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
  • By default, the dial does nothing other than serve as the pairing button.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
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“Brings off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brings%20off. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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