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takeoff

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noun

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as in launch
a rising from a surface at the start of a flight (as of a rocket) make sure your tray table is safely put away during takeoff

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as in parody
a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect a sitcom that's a takeoff of an old TV show from the 1960s

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Recent Examples of take off
Verb
The tour, celebrating the brothers’ group and solo contributions to pop music over the last two decades, took off in August. Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025 What started as fun little videos quickly took off when a clip of Harper running her first half-marathon went viral. Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
Anytime that gets worse and creates a shortage of controllers, the FAA reduces the number of takeoffs and landings to ensure controllers aren’t overwhelmed and the system remains safe. Josh Funk, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025 Jisulife Handheld Portable Turbo Fan Cooler weather may be here for many, but that won’t stop you from sweating while sprinting between terminals or sitting on stuffy airplanes before takeoff. Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for take off
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Verb
  • A number of long-serving youth coaches have departed United due to cutbacks at the club, while The Athletic reported on Monday head of academy recruitment Luke Fedorenko will depart having accepted an offer to work for a major football agency.
    Chris McKenna, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • However, when host Taylor Tomlinson decided to depart in early 2025, CBS canceled the show, and Allen returned last month.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • Israel is expected to keep some troops in Gaza for now, but would eventually remove them as the ceasefire solidifies and peace takes hold.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Bieber ended the Instagram carousel with a post of her once again in bed, this time removing a pair of the peptide eye prep patches.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Typically, the report is released on the first Friday of the month and includes information about how many jobs were added or subtracted from each industry.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The leap from knots to links is a relatively small one, but mathematicians can extend the ideas of knot theory to study mind-bending concepts such as higher-dimensional knots, surfaces with knotted edges and difficult-to-imagine objects obtained by subtracting a knot from three-dimensional space.
    Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Three years before the famed film was released, Wojtowicz and a friend held up a Brooklyn bank in a 14-hour hostage ordeal, allegedly robbing the bank to help pay for his transgender partner’s gender-affirming surgery.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • We’ve been truly robbed of many things throughout the 2020s.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Since its launch, the Zeekr 001 has remained the brand’s flagship model and primary sales driver, setting the standard for performance, technology, and innovation within Zeekr’s lineup.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Pioneering sneaker boutique Undefeated is following up the launch of one of 2025’s biggest collaborations, the return of its 2005 Air Jordan 4, with a brand new project that references another one of its classic releases.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The only people who write him letters are serial killers who adore him, especially serial killers who were portrayed on the Netflix series Mindhunter (which Monster, for some reason, takes a swipe at with a frankly exhausting, metatextual parody).
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The screenwriter, Nora Garrett, has achieved an amusingly florid Hollywood simulacrum—one that tilts into knowing parody—of an intensely self-regarding world.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a positive sign, Nunoo was moving his hands and fingers, according to Sutton.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
  • That includes other immigrants who continue to buy homes to move into or to invest in, even some without legal immigration status.
    Juan Cordoba, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This helps the shoe absorb impact, pushing off energy back towards you and putting off foot fatigue.
    Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That said, regional benefits offices may be closed, groundskeeping will be curtailed and placement of permanent headstones will be put off.
    Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Take off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take%20off. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.

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