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Recent Examples of off-the-record
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.
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Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
However, the meeting after the meeting creates an environment where decisions are often undone or altered by informal, off-the-record conversations.
—Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Driving the news: In off-the-record hallway conversations, background roundtables, and on-the-record interviews, decision-makers were largely interested in gas, carbon capture, and sustainable aviation fuel.
—Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
Mike Allen Jan 31, 2025 - Politics & Policy
Altman gives AI show-and-tell to D.C. power players
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gave government leaders, policy experts and journalists a sneak peek at coming technology Thursday during an off-the-record demo near Capitol Hill.
—Maria Curi, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
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Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
However, the meeting after the meeting creates an environment where decisions are often undone or altered by informal, off-the-record conversations.
—Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Driving the news: In off-the-record hallway conversations, background roundtables, and on-the-record interviews, decision-makers were largely interested in gas, carbon capture, and sustainable aviation fuel.
—Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
Mike Allen Jan 31, 2025 - Politics & Policy
Altman gives AI show-and-tell to D.C. power players
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gave government leaders, policy experts and journalists a sneak peek at coming technology Thursday during an off-the-record demo near Capitol Hill.
—Maria Curi, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for off-the-record
Adjective
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The test of these changes — some of which were only finalized three years ago — will come in the closed-door power brokering that goes on around the conclave, which will elect a new pope.—
Howard Chua-Eoan,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2025
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The remarks came at a closed-door JPMorgan event in Washington, D.C., a person in the room told CNBC, and were first reported by Bloomberg News .—
Jesse Pound,
CNBC,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In 1743, Keith was sent to Fleet Prison for his off-the-books activities.—
Alexandra Cox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 2025
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This second Adam and Eve are at odds because Adam, a trans man, is pregnant, and his sister, a scientist and genetic researcher, has volunteered to be his off-the-books OBGYN, helping him and his partner Fox (Ryan Jamaal Swain) through the pregnancy.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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The government in that case, a civil lawsuit, has relied on a 2019 local police report, which used information from a confidential informant to allege Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13.—
Andrew Goudsward and Ted Hesson,
USA Today,
13 Apr. 2025
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The trial committee recommended that Bush receive a confidential letter of censure and a ban from serving as a strike captain for three years.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Apr. 2025
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After authorities responded with mass arrests, weavers formed clandestine committees and took secret oaths.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Til Schweiger plays a sardonic whale-tourism boat captain (and former elite military operative, obviously) who gets roped into taking down a clandestine organization that’s building the perfect super-soldier through genetic experiments.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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The first surreptitious shots of Robbie in costume, however, lit up the internet anew.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2025
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The department has been criticized for using surreptitious means to collect DNA, like grabbing a soda can used by a suspect after questioning.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Off-the-record.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/off-the-record. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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