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as in to dismiss
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 to reduce
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 write off
Gemini Rising Once written off as a distant challenger to OpenAI, Google’s primary AI platform Gemini made sizable gains in 2025.
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Dade Hayes, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2026
Blade of Dream retold the events of the first book through what readers might have written off as secondary characters, maintaining the dramatic irony throughout and building to a hell of a cliffhanger.
—Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
Real estate professional Josh Franklin remembers a decade ago when they were easily written off by big investors.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2025
Some critics have written off Teyana Taylor's Perfidia Beverly Hills as a sexualized stereotype with limited screen time and an underdeveloped character arc.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 30 Dec. 2025
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In September, Hecox filed a notice to dismiss the lawsuit.—
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Why was Alabama’s 31-17 loss to a 4-8 FSU team so easily dismissed by the committee?—
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During his January 2025 State of the State address, Little called for tax cuts that could reduce the state’s general fund by about $100 million.—
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To reduce sizes, builders are going back to open floor plans with fewer hallways.—
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Cruz and other Republicans argued the decision minimized the gravity of an attack on the judiciary and could encourage future political violence.—
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Once stationary, deactivate all lights except the hazard flashers, engage the emergency brake, and release the brake pedal to ensure your tail lights remain unlit, minimizing the chance of other drivers colliding with your stationary vehicle.—
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Knowledge here is passed informally, not written down.—
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That being said, judges are allowed to keep a binder to write down clues.—
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Still seething after a sloppy 19-16 loss to the Detroit Lions, Johnson wasn’t hiding his dissatisfaction with a defeat that seemed to diminish his team’s momentum.—
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Kaufman moved there 30 years ago, and since that time the island’s community has diminished by degrees, its youth lured away by better employment prospects in Provo and overseas.—
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Smith ran down the sideline and broke away from Livingstone’s defense inside of four minutes left in regulation, helping the Golden Bulls run out the clock.—
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For more than 50 years, the harrowing Vietnam War image, which shows a nine-year-old girl named Kim Phúc running down a road naked, her clothes burned off in a napalm attack, has been credited to an Associated Press photographer named Nick Út.—
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Sheinbaum, known for her cool, steely demeanor, sought to play down his comments.—
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That someone can credibly play down low and also go coast to coast is what makes Barnes so irresistible.—
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Kirk does not talk down to the reader, and that is a feat.—
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Forever captures the rush and confusion of first love without talking down to its audience.—
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“Write off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/write%20off. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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