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noun

ˈȯ-fiŋ How to pronounce offing (audio)
Definition of offingnext
as in future
time that is to come major changes are in the offing for the company

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offing

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verb

present participle of off, slang
as in murdering
to put to death deliberately the hit man was rumored to have offed at least three people in the last year alone

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Recent Examples of offing
Noun
More changes in personnel as well as format are in the offing, sources close to events tell me. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 May 2026 For that to happen, however, lots of construction was in the offing. — Thad Moore, AJC.com, 27 May 2026
Verb
Too bad then that the man holding a debt over his head (Jonathan Coyne) is actually planning on offing him in his last match. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 May 2026 One of them, Elle (Sophie Thatche), is haunted by a nefarious murderer, the Leather Man, who is offing women around the city. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for offing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for offing
  1. future
  2. murdering
  3. tomorrow
  4. assassinating
  5. futurity
  6. slaying
  7. executing
  8. killing
Noun
  • Agents, coaches and teams all wanted to represent him, to sign him, to have some say in his future.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Played completely deadpan by Konopka, the character beneath this daft assemblage of aesthetic choices makes no real sense as a functionary in this dry, dark future, much less as its hero.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of future
Verb
  • Statham plays a former marine who has to prove his innocence after he’s framed for murdering his billionaire boss.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Tyrone Noling, who was convicted in 1996 of murdering an elderly couple and has maintained his innocence, is pictured June 15, 2005, in Mansfield, Ohio.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of murdering
Noun
  • That includes a whopping 50% levy aimed at Canada, which if negotiations fail, will go into effect tomorrow, August 19th.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Though the rally centered on tomorrow’s primary elections, Donalds was already campaigning for the November election.
    — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of tomorrow
Verb
  • Utah prosecutors are turning up the heat on Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, arguing that the evidence against him easily meets the standard required to send the case to trial.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
  • Ferrell instead starred as the villainous mogul Jacobim Mugatu, who attempts to brainwash Derek into assassinating the prime minister of Malaysia.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
Definition of assassinating
Noun
  • Established in 2023, the biennial prize is given in recognition of next-gen multidisciplinary artists working at the intersection of art, media, and technology to explore notions of futurity and transformation.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 4 Nov. 2025
  • This reading list offers resources for engaging with Indigenous thought, resistance, and futurity.
    — JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
Definition of futurity
Verb
  • The Manson murders spawned at least one copycat slaying in February 1970, The New York Times reported.
    — Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Symbolism Historically, dragon-slaying stories portrayed the treasure hoard as the ultimate test of a hero’s character.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Definition of slaying
Verb
  • America’s power grid is executing a quiet, high-tech transformation.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The Bills — sporting their new-look, attack-style 3-4 defense — attempted to stay as vanilla as possible while executing their core defensive philosophies.
    — Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of executing
Verb
  • Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Thompson’s killing outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel ignited a multistate manhunt that ended five days later, when police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, arrested Mangione in a McDonald’s.
    — Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of killing

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