How to Use off-brand in a Sentence

off-brand

adjective
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  • Check out this off-brand puffer jacket, which can provide all the same benefits at half the price.
    — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Generic, off-brand sodas are more likely to have BVO than name brands.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
  • Long, square, and sparkling, Swift’s nails were a fairly off-brand choice for the superstar, who tends to keep them short (likely to play the guitar).
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The future of the Mexican off-brand Buc-ee’s remains unclear.
    — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • But a world in which millions of Americans keep taking risky off-brand drugs is not much of a step forward at all.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • In what’s considered a slightly off-brand season, Georgia still won the SEC.
    — Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • There’s no way that off-brand, definitely refilled bottle of olive oil is the only cooking fat in the house?
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The news could put sellers of off-brand or compounded versions of the medication in jeopardy.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Alarm bells have already been sounding for less safe off-brand alternatives.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 21 June 2023
  • Jamming on an off-brand acoustic purchased by her mom, Bowers fell in love with the guitar’s crunch listening to the radio in the family car.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Amazon has some cheaper, off-brand wearable and portable breast pumps.
    — WIRED, 14 June 2023
  • The news could threaten sellers of off-brand or compounded versions of the medication.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2024
  • When a drug is removed from the shortage list, compounding pharmacies may no longer mix off-brand versions for people who can’t access the name brand drug.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 23 Dec. 2024
  • There are varying degrees of awareness of how AI can be applied to marketing, but there is a keen awareness of content that sounds robotic or off-brand.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Now that the shortage is over, specialty and compounding pharmacies — such as Henry Meds and Him — must stop selling their off-brand versions of the weight-loss drugs.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
  • This cherry charm is a cute addition to a purse, instantly leveling up those off-brand bags to a luxury dream.
    — Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Friends begin posting feverishly about bitcoin and off-brand Ozempic as their accounts are hacked or cloned.
    — Lindsay Lee Wallace, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • According to the press release from the FDA, businesses will have between 60 and 90 days, depending on their size to stop the distribution of their off-brand products.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Once there, 10-year-old Billy wastes no time finding an off-brand Necronomicon to read and wakes up a legion of creatures that soon attacks his family from all sides.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Using off-brand Viagra or ones that are expired but resold by companies can be detrimental to your health (not to mention a waste of money)!
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Poison control centers have seen a steep rise in calls related to off-brand weight loss medications.
    — C. Michael White / The Conversation, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Discount grocery-chain Aldi is expanding as shoppers look for better prices and off-brand items amid rising food costs.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
  • There was a time when boxed macaroni and cheese options were essentially limited to Kraft, Velveeta and a few off-brand and grocery-store labels.
    — Pervaiz Shallwani, WSJ, 23 June 2023
  • Beyond the show’s many faults (gaudy, 1980s prom costumes, lyrics that defy understanding, and music that feels like an off-brand version of Webber’s greatest hits) — there are some nice moments.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Chargers have all sorts of controls that limit the amount of current delivered and stop the phone charging when the battery is full, but some off-brand chargers might not have such rigorous safety settings.
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • One of the biggest issues with monofilament is memory—especially with bargain or off-brand mono.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 8 June 2023
  • Today’s powerful reads Demand for off-brand Ozempic and other weight-loss drugs is skyrocketing.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
  • These bundles invariably include a shoddy tripod, a questionable memory card, an off-brand battery, and a low-grade camera bag, plus maybe an air puffer and microfiber cleaning cloth.
    — PCMAG, 1 Dec. 2024
  • That means patients will likely be unable to access compounded — or cheaper, off-brand — versions of the drug that compounding pharmacies were legally allowed to make during the shortage.
    — Michele Luhn, CNBC, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Otherwise, those hiking in mild, dry conditions can use off-brand waterproofing.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023

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