crying off

present participle of cry off

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for crying off
Verb
  • Hours later, his administration began canceling hundreds of NEA grants to arts groups across the country.
    Helen Molesworth, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The noise-cancelling setting ensures jam sessions won’t be interrupted by outside disturbances.
    Melody Kazel, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Still, large pools of undeployed capital remain available, and major institutional players show little sign of abandoning real estate as a core asset class.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats returned to Washington to demonstrate unity and accuse GOP leaders of abandoning negotiations.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The director provided no indication what his next big-screen project would be after scrapping The Critic back in April 2024.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Congress is ending tax benefits for solar, and the administration is scrapping a $7 billion program that helped low-income families install rooftop panels.
    Ivan Penn, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Over the last five years, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services has brought hundreds of fraud cases that are heavily reliant on transactional data with the goal of revoking people’s food benefits.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed revoking requirements for companies to report greenhouse gas emissions.
    Max Rego, The Hill, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • San-ho enters the code, aborting the strike.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Crying off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crying%20off. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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