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Definition

In or into a clandestine or isolated situation or place, especially one in which public communication is curtailed.

Secretly; in a clandestine manner.

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In Context

  • "If you're annoying folks, you'll essentially cease to exist, as those you annoy drop you off the grid."
  • "[T]he government of a country with 80 million people and a modernizing economy cut off nearly all access to the network and shut down cellphone service. . . . Egypt, to an unprecedented extent, pulled itself off the grid."
  • "“You have to have an awful lot of energy and passion to make films with no funding and no prospect of having them seen in public in your home country except under the radar and off the grid,” said Sally Berger, the curator of the festival, who visited China last fall."