dashing (off)

present participle of dash (off)

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making up
Verb
  • As of Wednesday, only 70,000 Palestinians had evacuated Gaza City out of approximately one million people, a senior Israeli official said, making up less than 10% of the total population.
    Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Commercial deals, such as the NFL’s billion-dollar TV contracts, however, are shared—making up a large portion of the NFL’s roughly $280 million annual per-team salary cap.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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“Dashing (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dashing%20%28off%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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