puts off

present tense third-person singular of put off

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of puts off Leaving clean laundry in the dryer or hamper only puts off a chore until later, keeps clean clothes from its proper place, and also risks wrinkles or someone accidentally mistaking it for dirty laundry instead. Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for puts off
Verb
  • Scripps continues to pursue a strategy that focuses on the northern parts of San Diego County and postpones reconstruction plans for Scripps Mercy Hospital, which operates sister campuses in Hillcrest and Chula Vista.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The panel’s decision postpones the effective dates of TPS terminations directed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This shortcut removes the hassle of digging through menus and makes sharing directions effortless.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Exfoliation Post-Care Exfoliating your skin removes the dead skin cells from the surface, exposing new skin.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These early shifts—less COVID vaccination; fewer options for flu, MMR, and chickenpox vaccines; and, perhaps soon, delays to the hepatitis-B schedule—may seem benign enough.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Too much light in the evening — that extra hour from daylight saving time — delays that surge and the cycle gets out of sync.
    Jeremy Tanner, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • State Farm Stadium, the primary venue, holds over 63,000 and can expand to accommodate roughly 73,000.
    Amanda Castro Mandy Taheri Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • However, bands within those forecasts were fairly wide as uncertainty holds over the labor market and prices.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Trump, by contrast, shreds regular procedures, shrugs off the expertise needed to bring policies to life, and promotes administrative incompetence in order to eliminate any authority other than himself.
    Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Health and sleep insights feel genuinely useful when planning recovery, and the titanium build shrugs off scrapes.
    Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Buffett’s buy-and-hold approach not only compounds wealth but also defers taxes, allowing more capital to keep working year after year.
    Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The strategy seeds ETFs before launch, and the original investor defers capital gains until selling their shares.
    Kate Dore, CFP®, EA, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Unless Congress acts, American fliers are once again left to fend for themselves—refreshing apps, queuing at customer-service desks, and hoping their next flight takes off on time.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The air-condition, heating and electricity automatically turns off when the keycard is taken out of its slot, but to avoid this many leave one card in the slot when exiting the room.
    Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Once the spawning ends, the team turns off the music and takes the Pyrex containers into a room where the temperature is kept at around 82 degrees.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Puts off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puts%20off. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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