begs off

verb

present tense third-person singular of beg off
as in takes back

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  1. takes back
  2. recalls
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  • Even as Mother Nature takes back what industry once made, visitors can still get close to a time that was.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Missing a payment doesn’t immediately trigger foreclosure (when a lender takes back the property and sells it to recover what’s owed).
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of takes back
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  • Horvath recalls watching two adults play with one of those activities, using magnetic 3D parts to assemble a robot in the modeling section.
    — Megan Fitzgerald, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Kurdish-Canadian director Soran Mardookhi, with his latest documentary feature The Flight, recalls the doomed Ukraine Airlines Flight PS752 that in January 2020 crashed soon after taking off from an airport near Tehran.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
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“Begs off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/begs%20off. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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