branch off
phrasal verb
branched off; branching off; branches off
: to separate from something and move in a different direction
The stream branched off to the left.
—often + fromStreets branch off from both sides of the highway.
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Liv Morgan, one-half of the reigning WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, is set to step away from the squared circle for a while period to branch off into a new venture.
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
In the upper part of the house is the long hall, like the stem of a weed whose little fruits are the several nice rooms that branch off from it.
—Diane Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
Charlie’s roiling interiority is a more engaging long-term through-line for Poker Face than her repetitive fleeing from either the police or the Five Families, and that emotional angle bestows a strong core the series’ goofy stuff can branch off of.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2025
Lovato appeared in a number of Disney Channel projects before branching off on their own as a pop singer.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2025
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
In the upper part of the house is the long hall, like the stem of a weed whose little fruits are the several nice rooms that branch off from it.
—Diane Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
Charlie’s roiling interiority is a more engaging long-term through-line for Poker Face than her repetitive fleeing from either the police or the Five Families, and that emotional angle bestows a strong core the series’ goofy stuff can branch off of.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2025
Lovato appeared in a number of Disney Channel projects before branching off on their own as a pop singer.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Branch off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/branch%20off. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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