PACKS (OFF) Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

packs (off)

verb

present tense third-person singular of pack (off)

as in sends

to cause to go or be taken from one place to another packed the child off to a good boarding school

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The Knowing, an inbox magazine built for Black readers, sends its first issue Saturday.

— Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
And, when Malika’s dentist beau sends her flowers, Khloé opines (over FaceTime, naturally) that the bouquet is too small and therefore cheap.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

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Porky Pig and Daffy Duck aren’t celebrities but second-class citizens forced to order their shoddy goods from Acme, a monopoly that ships everything in oddly familiar blue and brown boxes.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
The result can take many forms—a product team that ships a working prototype before commissioning user research, or a strategy leader who presents a direction and asks which assumptions are wrong instead of asking which direction to take.

— Nataliya Andreychuk, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

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