wrote off

verb

past tense of write off
1
as in dismissed
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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2
as in reduced
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 wrote off The Department of Watershed Management wrote off nearly $62 million in water and sewer accounts since 2023, which the audit team noted was an improvement from the years prior. — Dan Raby, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026 Some investors wrote off the growing chorus of concern around AI, saying the doomsday talk is a political tactic to encourage government regulation. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026 Eventually, the firms dumped the valuable slag into waste piles and wrote off the metals inside. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026 Weeks after the anniversary, the FDA proposed a new pathway to speed these therapies to children with ultra-rare disease, a pathway that runs straight through the platform the secretary wrote off. — Jeff Coller, STAT, 6 Aug. 2026 Within three years, Carlyle wrote off the investment, and Beautycounter filed for bankruptcy. — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Furthermore, Oscar nominees Ruth de Jong and Ellen Mirojnick exceed expectations with their production design and costume design, respectively, which some initially wrote off as too brutalist and minimal in the film’s previews. — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 22 July 2026 Six politicians in black robes wrote off the voting rights of multitudes of Floridians in the latest case in just a half-page of text, refusing to take it away from the First District Court of Appeal and decide it promptly. — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026 Consumers previously wrote off Chinese goods as inferior, as Chinese manufacturers prioritized quick market entry over original designs. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 9 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrote off
  1. dismissed
  2. reduced
  3. minimized
  4. wrote down
  5. diminished
Verb
  • Williams argued that without a viable federal copyright claim, Hugo’s state-law claims involving breach of fiduciary duty and an incomplete accounting should also be dismissed, leaving him free to pursue those claims separately in state court.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Last weekend in Highland, Michigan, Rogers dismissed El-Sayed's attempts to whittle away at his GOP base of support.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
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  • Taps won't go dry, experts say, in part because Arizona has already reduced its water use over the years.
    — Hannah Knowles The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • But for Deakins, the work is too dependent on the circumstances of a story, and the people telling it, to be reduced to any one method.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of reduced
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  • Profit is simply what remains after wages are held down, taxes are minimized, and costs are pushed onto workers, communities, and the environment.
    — Christopher Marquis, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Thornton has minimized the relevance of the previous paragraph.
    — Sam McDowell October 7, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of minimized
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  • Every home seems to have a list that nobody actually wrote down.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Recently, Hobert wrote down one of her goals 40 times in a notebook.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of wrote down
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  • The weather service canceled the flood watch for nearly all the Kansas City forecast area because the threat of additional heavy rain had diminished.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
  • One can see this when a paint’s color appears diminished and faded.
    — Wendy S. Walters, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of diminished

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“Wrote off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrote%20off. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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