take off (on)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for take off (on)
Verb
  • In August 2017, a giant inflatable chicken designed to mimic Trump's features drew widespread media attention when staged near the White House as a form of protest, garnering viral interest on social media.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
  • These attacks are more efficient, are harder to detect and often mimic legitimate activity with alarming accuracy.
    Galit Lubetzky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • Fun factoid: Don Adams as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) talking on the shoe phone has been parodied by many comedians over the years.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Dawn of the Dead has been parodied and referenced many times since, including Shaun of the Dead, the video game series Dead Rising, and a remake that's good enough to appear later on this list, but none of its successors quite captured the level of dread and malaise the original does.
    James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • Bateman's seething anger at having his card bested by that of his colleague Paul Allen (Jared Leto), despite the two cards looking almost identical, satirized the vacuous materialism of 1980s yuppie culture.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 June 2025
  • Sean Solo’s TikToks also satirize how a Hongdae man approaches women of different ethinicities and nationalities.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • But as these systems gained the ability to imitate reasoning, planning, and decision-making among options, emergent behaviors began raising red flags.
    Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Some fireworks transcend the standard pops and booms to imitate a non-fiery object.
    Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • Kinetic’s relatively small service area targets rural and suburban regions.
    Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 5 July 2025
  • Apple, Microsoft, and other competitors had targeted Google and its phone making partners with claims that the operating system infringed on their intellectual property.
    Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • That physicality comes in the form of striking, exaggerated, and caricatured animation straight out of the golden age of Chuck Jones and Tex Avery cartoons.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 June 2025
  • New York City, with its high concentration of Wall Street finance bros, is a perfect setting to caricature people who score their dates on a spreadsheet.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
Verb
  • Instead of trying to ape a classic 16-bit console on modern hardware, why not develop the game properly on the original console?
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
  • Banijay creative exec Lucas Green recently raised concerns that YouTubers aping traditional formats are bad for business but Hugill disagreed.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In January, Native Americans alleged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were harassing tribal members.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
  • Federal authorities have called Iran the world's largest state sponsor of terror, and the FBI says the Iranian government has both imprisoned Americans within its territory on unsubstantiated charges and harassed and even killed dissidents in exile.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2025
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“Take off (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take%20off%20%28on%29. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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