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Recent Examples of off-the-record
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for off-the-record
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At a closed-door meeting in the basement of the Missouri Capitol this week, Gov. Mike Kehoe pitched Republican lawmakers on a sweeping plan to keep the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals in the state.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
15 May 2025
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Another closed-door session to discuss jury questionnaires took place into Thursday afternoon.—
Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
15 May 2025
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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
Adjective
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But in a possible attempt to discredit Pryor, her name and some details of her confidential complaint, available only to the mayor, commissioners and senior city employees, have been circulated publicly.—
Steve Bousquet,
Sun Sentinel,
10 May 2025
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The organizations kept talking, though, and agreed to settle for a confidential sum, averting a jury trial.—
Kevin Williams,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 May 2025
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Gaddafi agreed to suspend his country's nuclear weapons program in December 2003, following years of clandestine negotiations that began during the Clinton administration and continued under George W. Bush.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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Alongside the harbour in Lerwick are five fishing boats, once part of the clandestine Anglo-Norwegian Shetland Bus mission, and the wartime cargo ship Hestmanden.—
Heather Farmbrough,
Forbes.com,
8 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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For example: In 2003, a group of Providence, Rhode Island, artists embarked on a project combining installation art and surreptitious living arrangements.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
17 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 21 May. 2025.
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