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going off

verb

present participle of go off

as in exploding

to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure specialists were able to deactivate the bomb before it went off

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as in progressing

to move forward along a course the wedding went off without so much as a single glitch

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as in departing

to leave a place often for another don't go off without telling us where we can find you

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Recent Examples of going off Single-Node Contention Under Concurrent Agent Queries A distributed, scale-out architecture spreads those concurrent operations across many nodes, so adding agents means adding capacity rather than going off a cliff. — Gopi Duddi, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Tadej Pogačar continued his impressive run at the Spanish Vuelta on Thursday, winning the sixth stage after going off track and nearly crashing on a quick descent. — ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026 The robbery was meticulously planned by the thieves; prior to the alarms going off at the museum, an alarm had gone off at the city’s sports center that authorities are calling suspicious. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026 If time expires, the player going off must still leave the field. — Graham Scott, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 While some, going off of available video, thought that the Yanks caught a break on what would have been a go-ahead blast from Alonso, Aaron Boone didn’t feel that way after the game. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026 The semi continued its path, going off the road of C-470 before rolling. — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 Kanan’s really going off into the deep end because there’s nobody left to help him or protect him. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 31 July 2026 That included a tank chase shot largely on a street in Glasgow, Scotland, on the first day of filming, complete with a rig that let an actor swing with explosions going off behind him. — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026

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The cost of living for middle class families for average Americans is exploding.

— NBC news, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026
Octane measures how well fuel resists exploding prematurely under compression in a gasoline engine.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of exploding

Verb

Symptoms, which can take up to two months to develop, may include headache, nausea and sore throat before progressing to hallucinations, delusions, disorientation, paralysis and coma.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
Conference season gives management teams a chance to update investors on how the quarter is progressing and shape expectations ahead of earnings.

— Jeff Marks, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of progressing

Verb

Going analyzed its 2026 flight deal data to find the US airports that have offered the most affordable departing flights so far in 2026.

— Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2026
Trains rumble behind the main stadiums, Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong, while planes approaching and departing from La Guardia Airport bring their stomach-churning roars.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of departing

Verb

Bowie planned to put the bomb in a delivery bag and escape to Syria after detonating it, the complaint alleges.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2026
Just weeks before her confrontation with Cunningham, Carrington sent shockwaves through the WNBA by publicly detonating her former relationship on social media.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of detonating

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While exiting a direct index fund is relatively straightforward, moving out of a tax-aware long-short strategy involves deleveraging, which means the unrealized gains can all get realized at once.

— Robert Frank, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026
Henderson allowed one unearned run on two hits, striking out six and walking one before exiting after Carson Kelly's leadoff single in the sixth.

— CBS News, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of exiting

Verb

After going behind early to a Kai Havertz goal, PSG had to remain patient, before gradually asserting their authority in the contest.

— Tom Burrows, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
The whole thing was essentially an American Cadillac crossed with an Italian coachbuilt exotic, at a time when Detroit was already going completely bonkers with automotive excess.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2026