Consider the following sentence:
"After three big losses so early in the campaign, the press began WRITING OFF my campaign, along with my political future."
Does 'writing off' mean 'to speak ill'?
Worse than that. The press began to say my campaign was definitely going to fail.
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Worse than that.
The press began to say my campaign was definitely going to fail.