as in to abandon
to stop doing (something) permanently
we warned him to lay off of the cigarette smoking
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Verb
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Never desert a blaze: Avoid abandoning any fire without supervision.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
1 July 2025 -
Retired repos add risk: When maintainers abandon a namespace, attackers can adopt it and push trojan updates.—
Syed Ahmed,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Ford discontinued the Timberline after the 2024 model year.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
30 June 2025
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Rates of patients who discontinued the drug due to side effects were high, ranging from 10% to 29% within different groups that took it.—
Annika Kim Constantino,Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
25 June 2025
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In April alone, 3.2 million Americans quit their jobs.—
Julia Korn,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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To say the quiet part out loud: many athletes have previously felt that choosing to have a child meant having to quit.—
L'Oréal Blackett,
Refinery29,
30 June 2025
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Undeterred, Gustav offers the role, written for Nora, to the young Hollywood star Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning), dropping the eager American actress right in the middle of the complicated Borg family dynamics.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
1 July 2025
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Receivers got hurt and dropped game winners, but also broke records.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
1 July 2025
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“Lay off (of).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lay%20off%20%28of%29. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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