heading off

present participle of head off

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of heading off On Instagram, Kelly regularly shares snaps of her family life — including photos of her girls heading off to their first days of school last month. Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025 However, becoming an expat is not always as simple as packing up your bags and heading off to wherever calls your name. Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025 The broadcasting deals were revealed in exclusivity to Variety on Monday by global distributor Federation International, as 150 world buyers were heading off to this week’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre, the world’s largest dedicated market for French audiovisual content. Annika Pham, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025 The gig was the band’s final show before heading off to the studio to record their next studio album, which will be their first LP without Brent Hinds. Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heading off
Verb
  • Snow said crews contained the flames to the refinery and were focusing on preventing the fire from spreading.
    Christina Shaw, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The White House insists the law protects taxpayers by preventing undocumented immigrants from getting government health benefits — but such individuals were already barred from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, exchanges.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Resorting to an omnibus is now common, even though it is reviled by many rank-and-file lawmakers who resent being deprived of the ability to resist individual spending provisions without derailing the sole vehicle for averting a shutdown.
    Lazaro Gamio, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Democrats, Republicans and administration officials left a meeting at the White House pointing fingers at each other and seemingly no closer to averting a government shutdown at the end of Tuesday.
    The Hill staff, The Hill, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Heading off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heading%20off. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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