How to Use write-off in a Sentence

write-off

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• The film will never be released so the company can get a tax write-off.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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, 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
• For example, our access to health insurance, benefits, tax write-offs, housing and other important outcomes are good for our health.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2023
• Since then, the couple generated $5.6 million worth of income tax write-offs largely from donating shares of tech companies like Twitter and Snapchat to their private foundation.
  — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 26 July 2023
• Among them are flops, obscurities, embarrassments, and tax write-offs, all remnants of a past cinematic age, when shlock and shock value propagated freely.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 24 Oct. 2023
• The oil and gas industry enjoys nearly a dozen tax breaks, including incentives for domestic production and write-offs tied to foreign production.
  — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Thanks to the mortgage interest deduction, filers who choose to itemize their tax returns rather than take the standard deduction can deduct the entirety of their home interest payments in addition to taking other write-offs.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2024
• In addition to the lower operating loss, the potential write-off for remaining Yeezy inventory decreased to $443 million.
  — Ellie Stevens, CNN, 24 July 2023

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write off

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• 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
• 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
• 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
• This should serve as a cautionary tale to not prematurely write off 19-year-olds.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 21 Mar. 2022
• 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 same tax package also would increase how much small business owners can write off from the purchase of new equipment.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• Physicians also urged people not to write off ketamine for medical treatment in light of the tragedy.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• The whole idea of writing off loans that have already been taken out goes against everything some of us have been taught about obligation.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023
• Not to mention, when the two teams did play, while the games were mostly tight, Utah almost always won, except for that last game in 2021, a result the Utes wrote off as an anomaly.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• Don’t write off this recipe: It can also be baked in a standard muffin pan, without muffin liners.
  — Erin Jeanne McDowell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2023
• The meltdown against Tulane in the Cotton Bowl could be written off as a hangover from that disappointment.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• So did markets: The pound fell against the U.S. dollar and derivatives traders all but wrote off chances of further rate increases.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024