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as in dismissed
to express scornfully one's low opinion of
most critics have already written off that director as a hack incapable of turning out anything but schlock
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as in reduced
to diminish the price or value of
that one blunder will write off to nothing all the goodwill we've been building up
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Recent Examples of written off
The documentary is about how the young Brady was written off by so many, and about those six quarterbacks who were drafted ahead of him.
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Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
If not, the remaining balance is generally written off.
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Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
Audiences and analysts had almost certainly written off Cameroon before the game.
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Tushaar Kuthiala,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
22 June 2026
To have the citation written off, both the child and their parent are required to attend a rider safety course.
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Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
21 June 2026
The president’s instinct to go for the jugular was on display in his first campaign, when he was written off early on as an entertainer but found success with brutal takedowns.
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Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
Because of Young's commitments in Shondaland, Beth was quietly written off the show in later seasons.
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Rachel Labonte,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 June 2026
But that doesn’t mean she’s entirely written off appearing on RuPaul’s Drag Race’s biggest awards competition.
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Mckinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2026
Capital is moving back into a sector many had long written off.
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Elena Bou,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
If not, the remaining balance is generally written off.
—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
Audiences and analysts had almost certainly written off Cameroon before the game.
—
Tushaar Kuthiala,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
22 June 2026
To have the citation written off, both the child and their parent are required to attend a rider safety course.
—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
21 June 2026
The president’s instinct to go for the jugular was on display in his first campaign, when he was written off early on as an entertainer but found success with brutal takedowns.
—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
Because of Young's commitments in Shondaland, Beth was quietly written off the show in later seasons.
—
Rachel Labonte,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 June 2026
But that doesn’t mean she’s entirely written off appearing on RuPaul’s Drag Race’s biggest awards competition.
—
Mckinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2026
Capital is moving back into a sector many had long written off.
—
Elena Bou,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for written off
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Johnson is among six people featured by Pam Bondi whose cases have now been dismissed.
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Joe Root, Jofra Archer, Matthew Fisher and Josh Tongue were dismissed in two double-wicket maidens by Henry.
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Among them, a large waterfront hotel in the city of Macuto, which has been reduced to rubble.
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That matters because decades of research link heavy social media use to anxiety, lower self-esteem and reduced well-being.
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Scotland's Ben Gannon-Doak was trying to run down a long pass when Moroccan goalkeeper Yassine Bounou ran out to grab the ball, and both met in a crunching collision that left both players down for a minute.
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For the first time on June 19, the community got to use the playground, tour the gardens, and run down the sledding hill.
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None of these rules are written down.
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Fewer than a third of those processes were written down anywhere.
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Rutte confirmed the drawdown but played down its impact.
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Claims of an arrangement along those lines have been played down at the Newcastle end.
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By the 1980s the pool had sunk about a foot, and the solution was to pour a new concrete slab on top of the old one.
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Others have sunk below the ground.
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The contractors talked down to me.
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Others described feeling they were being talked down to.
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“Written off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/written%20off. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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