make off

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Recent Examples of make off However, the pirates didn’t make off with all the Nossa Senhora do Cabo’s treasures. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2025 Inspired by a plot in a Sherlock Holmes story, British robbers tunneled their way into a Lloyds Bank in London in 1971, making off with what today would be $51 million in cash before being caught. Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 20 June 2025 Kristi Noem made headlines last month when a thief snatched her purse inside a Washington, D.C., restaurant and made off with $3,000 in cash, prompting a question: Exactly how much money does the homeland security secretary have? Maggie McGrath, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025 But the revenue that the U.S. government makes off the tariffs would reduce the total federal deficits by $2.8 trillion. Lauren Peller, ABC News, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for make off
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Verb
  • The first weekend of September brings no shortage of ways to get out of the house and enjoy North Texas.
    Tiffani Jackson Skinner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • So, get out your digging tools now—you’ll want to give these flowering beauties time to settle before the ground freezes.
    Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Scattered areas of visibility below 1 mile, and as low as 1/4 mile in isolated locations, will continue until after sunrise, at which point fog should quickly clear out.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Software-defined The Neue Klasse is a clean-sheet design, and BMW has used this as an opportunity to clear out the legacy cruft that has accumulated over the years.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With roughly 180 resorts spread across its atolls, there are dozens of worthy five-star escapes to choose from.
    Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Auger-Aliassime played some of his best tennis since the early 2020s in the second and fourth sets, winning the former and having Sinner on the edge of going a break down for 3-1 in the latter, before the Italian escaped.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Make off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/make%20off. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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