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Ali and Maldonado were still working off of that marginal investment when a Trader Joe’s executive rang in 2016.
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Andrew Watman, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Schatz is working off a playbook that assumes the courts, remade over the last two decades to be decidedly right-of-center, will stick to the law as the mainstream legal community has long interpreted it.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
Udoka’s screen-heavy system is in desperate need of a release valve, and there are few better out there than Johnson, who’s lethal from any spot on the perimeter and could work off Fred VanVleet, Alperen Şengün or Jalen Green.
—Kelly Iko, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Somehow, Ross persuaded Fleischmann to pay off some of his debt and let Ross work off the rest.
—Christopher B. Daly, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
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Andrew Watman, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Schatz is working off a playbook that assumes the courts, remade over the last two decades to be decidedly right-of-center, will stick to the law as the mainstream legal community has long interpreted it.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
Udoka’s screen-heavy system is in desperate need of a release valve, and there are few better out there than Johnson, who’s lethal from any spot on the perimeter and could work off Fred VanVleet, Alperen Şengün or Jalen Green.
—Kelly Iko, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Somehow, Ross persuaded Fleischmann to pay off some of his debt and let Ross work off the rest.
—Christopher B. Daly, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Work off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20off. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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