hack (off)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hack (off)
Verb
  • In practice, Musk bowed to authoritarian governments or banned critical journalists when their reporting annoyed him.
    Jacob Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Joe proceeded to get drunk, annoy her (and multiple other cast members), and ultimately exit the party early to pass out in his room.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Don’t let those small scratches bug you—just use a little Bar Keeper’s Friend to buff them out.
    Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The singer admitted that he bugs Brown and his son for constant updates on the baby girl.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Reviewing pages have been thinned by the forces of history and technology; few Pynchon skeptics anymore bother to take the time to read the novels and register their objections.
    Book Marks October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But Bob Say, owner of Los Angeles’ Freakbeat Records, for one, isn’t all that bothered.
    Roy Trakin, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.
    Fatma Tanis, NPR, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Leatherface attacks, but the real villains turn out to be the townsfolk who persecuted the Sawyers after the original massacre.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His eerie calm seems to irritate Dawn even more than a candidly emotional confrontation would have done.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The cranky and irritating backseat driver, who bums a lift midway through the Griswolds' adventure, also has with her the easily excitable pooch Dinky.
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • My 5-year-old wore this Melissa & Doug Fire Chief set for Halloween last year and has put out many fake fires since then.
    Katrina Cossey, Parents, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Failing a deal over the next two days, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' nonfarm payrolls report for September will not be released, nor will the Labor Department put out the weekly jobless claims count on Thursday.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The goal is to get a congress of 15, with at least eight members coming from Cincinnati's homeless shelters and seven representing people who live outdoors or in temporary housing.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Jonathan Taylor got the three touchdowns but was hardly explosive on a down-to-down basis.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Hack (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hack%20%28off%29. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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