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Recent Examples of off-the-record
However, the meeting after the meeting creates an environment where decisions are often undone or altered by informal, off-the-record conversations.
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Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Through voiceover, Wang shares details from off-the-record conversations which unveil Payá’s ambiguous feelings about the former president.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
While Netflix won’t speak to global viewership expectations, the Super Bowl comes up in off-the-record conversations as an only slightly outlandish aspirational benchmark — and 124 million tuned in for Super Bowl LVIII.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
Those conversations are a delicate dance of on-the-record and off-the-record context about roster usage, player health, play calling and game strategy.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for off-the-record
Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Through voiceover, Wang shares details from off-the-record conversations which unveil Payá’s ambiguous feelings about the former president.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
While Netflix won’t speak to global viewership expectations, the Super Bowl comes up in off-the-record conversations as an only slightly outlandish aspirational benchmark — and 124 million tuned in for Super Bowl LVIII.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
Those conversations are a delicate dance of on-the-record and off-the-record context about roster usage, player health, play calling and game strategy.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for off-the-record
Recent Examples of Synonyms for off-the-record
Adjective
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The two men sit down for a closed-door meeting, and afterward, Pavel is direct about his nation’s spending commitment.—
Adam Rasmi,
Time,
20 June 2025
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Keene was selected to preside over a closed-door pre-removal conference held earlier this month.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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Charges were dropped Tuesday against the one-time manager of a former off-the-books Gary strip club after the man died, filings show.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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Few films are more overt in their 1980s-ness than the original Predator, which saw rising star Arnold Schwarzenegger playing Dutch, the leader of an elite, off-the-books team of commandos who go into Central America only to come face-to-face with an interstellar killing machine.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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Her usual duties included accessing confidential deputy records and internal affairs investigations.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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The city argued the policy was confidential, and would interfere with the department’s ability to fight crime.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 June 2025
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The Square, from South Korean director Bo-Sol Kim, which blends political commentary with experimental animation in its story of a Swedish diplomat in Pyongyang who begins a clandestine affair with a local traffic officer, took the jury prize of the Contrechamps section.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
14 June 2025
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During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Alcala — without school authorization — took wrestling mats from El Modena, had the wrestling team load them into a U-Haul truck, and then took them to a warehouse for clandestine practices, Plaintiff Two said.—
Scott Schwebke,
Oc Register,
13 June 2025
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There’s nothing surreptitious about my administration.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2025
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Reporters from around the country followed the case, which marked the first time ever that prosecutors would play for a jury a surreptitious FBI recording of mob soldiers taking the oath of omerta during a mafia initiation ceremony.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Off-the-record.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/off-the-record. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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