How to Use write-off in a Sentence

write-off

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• The first write-off came on Mr. Trump’s tax return for 2008.
  — Paul Kiel Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• The only dispute with a further write-off is who goes first.
  — Roger Barris, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2015
• The film will never be released so the company can get a tax write-off.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• But 24-hour racing is really hard, and the race wasn't a write-off for Toyota.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024
• Holiday Haunt last year in exchange for tax write-offs.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
• Every single major section, from the cockpit to the engines, is a write-off.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2023
• Orsted has taken a $4 billion write-off and canceled two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey.
  — Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Duffield believes that Coyote can make money — certainly more than the tax write-off.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2023
• Unless, of course, Warners. needs another last-minute tax write-off.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• Then there is the controversial write-off of Credit Suisse’s $17 billion in AT1 bonds.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
• Some of those write-offs involved a power plant in Citrus County, Fla., and a refinery in Europe.
  — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Since Soulmates wrapped its run in late 2020, AMC — like others — has canceled a number of series to take advantage of tax write-offs.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
• There have been entire recent movies that were deleted by Warner Bros. Discovery so the company could claim a tax write-off.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
• The idea of a write-off is generally to lower a company’s tax bill, and this comes as Disney is aggressively looking to cut costs.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• The latter four shows, in addition to being canceled, were also removed from Paramount+ as the streamer, like others, took advantage of a tax write-off.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023
• The best solution might be a repayment plan through the agency, with creditors agreeing to a lower monthly sum and a write-off of some past due interest.
  — Terry Savage, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2023
• Although the 2017 change in the tax law made more payments to the government nondeductible, payments of restitution are generally still fair game for tax write-offs.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Holiday Haunt and Acme v. Coyote, the company saved millions of dollars that would have went to completing and the marketing the movies, on top of collecting hefty tax write-offs.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
• Zaslav started to make cuts across the portfolio once the deal was completed, letting employees go and even shelving entire finished films as part of tax write-offs.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 June 2023
• The upcoming peak holiday season appears a near-total write-off.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• That's useful because such write-offs can lead to paper losses that allow landlords to offset income from rent, for example.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 July 2024
• As a result, vehicles suffering a collision may be more prone to a total write-off as the repair could cost more than its residual value.
  — José Rodríguez Jr. / Jalopnik, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• Pfizer’s write-offs of unused vaccine inventory cut into BioNTech’s share of the profit in the second quarter.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• In an increasingly common move, the company also pulled movies and TV shows from Disney+ as content write-offs – including ones released in 2023.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
• Critics argued Willow in retrospect would have been more valuable to Disney as a tax write-off than as actual content for subscribers.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 3 June 2023
• Tax write-offs are incentives that the United States government gives to business owners for running a business, since your business is helping grow the economy.
  — Barbara Schreihans, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• When Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, tax shelters became vogue, and people were investing in movies and cattle feeding as write-offs.
  — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• Like previous rounds, this latest write-off is a $1.2 billion campaign expenditure, one that doesn’t have to come out of the Biden campaign’s $56 million in cash reserves, or be raised with donation drives.
  — Thomas Knapp, Orange County Register, 22 Feb. 2024
• And the Social Security tax needs to be applied on gross earnings while not being eligible for any deductions or write-offs.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2024
• And, speaking of paying off, what exactly will the Texas Rangers get from Jacob deGrom (making roughly $37 million this season with 6⅔ innings thrown in spring training), besides a tax write-off.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2023

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write off

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• That doesn’t mean Wall Street has written off the stock.
  — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 5 June 2024
• Win Scutt, for his part, isn’t ready to write off King Arthur just yet.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
• When consumers fail to repay their loans for a long time, banks write off the bad debt as a loss.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• But far larger amounts that would be written off over the next 10 years have been put on hold for now.
  — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 June 2024
• The pic is falling off 39 percent or less, a strong hold for a film that many had written off.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2023
• Will the government take, and write off, our mortgages next?
  — Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023
• Peter, who voted for Mr. Sunak over Ms. Truss in the party elections, says the best thing to do is to write off the last six weeks.
  — Natasha Khullar Relph, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2022
• And Heard is not the only person not being able to write off legal fees.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• Smartly, the Ebos refuse to write off any of their characters as buffoons.
  — Amy Nicholson, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2022
• When Emily and Ross broke up, Baxendale was written off the show.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
• Thank you for teaching me how to forgive beings and give another chance, not to be so quick to judge and write off.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 July 2023
• In this case, the insurance provider will likely write off the wreck as a total loss and provide a payout to the owner.
  — Jim Slavik, Car and Driver, 10 July 2023
• Lutz played Kenny Crosby, who was written off the show in the Season 3 premiere.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
• But by the end of the decade, he was written off as a casualty, laid low by drugs and cultural shifts.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The Bengals have too much talent to be written off, but a tough schedule might keep them out of the postseason.
  — C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
• That’s not to write off the docuseries is a purely cynical venture.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2022
• His insurer agreed, and Betty was written off and sent to a salvage yard.
  — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• To put upgrading on hold would be to write off one of those $40 million seasons on his contract.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2022
• Acute mountain sickness, the least severe of the bunch, might be something easy to write off as just feeling a bit sick, or even hungover.
  — Allie Conti, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
• The character was written off the show but returned after a new voice actor was hired.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
• In a heartland state that Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has all but written off, that’s not nothing.
  — Phil Elliott, TIME, 2 May 2024
• But Herman doesn’t think that should write off every team within the conference this year.
  — Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2020
• Not that Tomljanović is ready to completely write off tennis love.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• Many might write off the space, saying lower, angled ceilings make the room unusable, but not Welch.
  — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2024
• State lawmakers in Kansas haven’t written off the issue for the 2025 session.
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2024
• This should serve as a cautionary tale to not prematurely write off 19-year-olds.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 21 Mar. 2022
• His confidence took a major hit and he was written off as a bust early in his NFL career.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 19 July 2024
• Universal had to write off a large portion of its $175 million budget.
  — John Carreyrou, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• There was concern over how Mr. Abramovich could write off the loan, given that he is frozen out of the European financial system.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• The Slough House spies are too prickly and vulnerable to be written off so easily.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024