off-load
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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The company’s prospects were so bad that the banks that loaned Musk billions couldn’t even off-load the debt.
From Slate • May 28, 2025
That’s because, in every state, hospitals had to off-load recovering patients to ensure they had beds for incoming patients, researchers say.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2022
“There’s this idea that we can off-load some of our cognitive processes on these systems,” says Lauren Rhue, an information systems scientist at the University of Maryland, who has studied racial bias in emotion AI.
From Scientific American • Dec. 20, 2021
Welsh ambulance crews are spending whole shifts waiting to off-load patients, according to a front-line worker.
From BBC • Sep. 21, 2021
They look to be waiting, while they off-load some of the heavy ordnance from the Marsten Moor.
From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas
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