shucking (off)

present participle of shuck (off)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shucking (off)
Verb
  • However, salary-dumping Drummond wouldn't come without risk for the Sixers.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In an interview, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava noted that dumping dogs is a top complaint in the agricultural area of South Miami-Dade known as Redland.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Glabe’s sales follow those of board member Eric Swider, who has also sharply reduced his holdings, unloading around 165,000 shares since November.
    Zach Everson, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Dockworkers were unloading shipping containers from another vessel that was berthed at Pier G before the incident, with truck drivers moving containers to and from the terminal.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The reason for the debris is not that people are discarding the cookies but, rather, the way they’re sold.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • These layers are then reorganized into tensor networks, which retain the most important patterns in the layer’s weights while discarding redundant information that isn’t contributing much to overall performance.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With more and more people ditching larger sizes, the store has had to be reset multiple times.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Give and Take All the new iPhones use eSIM worldwide, ditching physical SIM cards for good.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Despite spending the whole three-hour awards show telling people that their overlong speeches were losing the Boys & Girls Club of America money, the bit was a ruse.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Resilience, in the simplest terms, is the ability to recover from challenges, adapt to change and keep moving forward without losing your core sense of purpose.
    Raquel Gomes, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • From the outside, that must sound ludicrously harsh, even if Leverkusen were winless across those matches, losing to Hoffenheim and throwing away a 3-1 lead (with a man advantage) to draw 3-3 in Bremen on Saturday afternoon.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Starting over does not mean throwing away the earlier chapters.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Shucking (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shucking%20%28off%29. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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