as in overcoming
to defeat by a large margin
the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion
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Recent Examples of blowing away
The snug drawstring closure and four fixed buckles that attach to each chair leg help keep the cover from blowing away in the wind while keeping dirt and debris out.
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Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2025
Tolle set the tone early, blowing away Pirates leadoff hitter Jared Triolo with four straight fastballs for his first career strikeout.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 30 Aug. 2025
But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children.
—Greg Mitchell
august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2025
Tolle set the tone early, blowing away Pirates leadoff hitter Jared Triolo with four straight fastballs for his first career strikeout.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 30 Aug. 2025
But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children.
—Greg Mitchell
august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blowing away
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Marc Marquez says his latest MotoGP championship win carries a weight that goes beyond his statistics, describing it as the culmination of years spent overcoming injury, self-doubt and an inner battle to continue.—
Alex Harrington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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In 2024, the Hurricanes started 9-0, including overcoming double-digit deficits against Virginia Tech, California and Duke in the early portion of its conference schedule.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
28 Sep. 2025
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Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America's goals.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The crew would indeed appear to be at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, because the Navy wasn’t satisfied with disabling the speedboat with a single powerful strike, but kept bombing it to smithereens after the initial hit.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
12 Sep. 2025
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Video from Camiguin Island, posted by the Philippines Department of the Interior and Local Government, showed fierce winds and ocean water whipping past houses onto a residential street.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
23 Sep. 2025
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After whipping Minnesota 22-6 on the road in Week 2, the Falcons were shut out by the Panthers in Week 3.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
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The Mountain View Fire Protection District and Boulder County sheriff’s deputies responded when neighbors reported the fire, and the cult members extinguished the blaze by burying it with dirt.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
26 Sep. 2025
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Goldberg stared blankly into the camera before fully burying her head in her arms.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Sep. 2025
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Jonathan Kitchen | Digitalvision | Getty Images Companies are throwing lots of money into artificial intelligence tools and services, particularly agentic AI, in many cases without truly understanding what these offerings actually do.—
Bob Violino,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
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Hurts led the Eagles' furious comeback, throwing three unanswered touchdown passes.—
Matt Audilet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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Dynamo is an open-source inference framework for planning and routing AI workloads in the data center, essentially an data center workload orchestrator.—
Jim McGregor,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The posts outlined some of the steps OpenAI is taking to improve ChatGPT’s safety, including routing sensitive conversations to reasoning models, partnering with experts to develop further protections, and rolling out parental controls within the next month.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
14 Sep. 2025
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For Minha, the biggest challenge was mastering the North Korean dialect.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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While the core responsibility of a long snapper may look simple — hike a ball backward and let a punter or kicker do the rest — job security comes from mastering the many intricacies of the position.—
Greg Rosenstein,
NBC news,
20 Sep. 2025
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My trick with this set is to detach the plant from the base, then gently run over the base, leaves, and petals with a dusting cloth.—
Izzy Baskette,
People.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Rotor, an unmanned aerial vehicle technology firm which is working to turn small helicopters into autonomous crop-dusting machines for farms, uses part of the former site for manufacturing, according to tech newspaper column Granite Geek.—
Jordan King
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Blowing away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blowing%20away. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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