as in to blot out
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Recent Examples of kill off
Otherwise, lady beetles and ladybugs can actually help out your garden by eating up aphids, the small and sap-sucking insects that can kill off plants.
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Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
However, in the final scene, the mutant baby returns to kill off half of them in a brutal sequence.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
This phenomenon comes thanks to a li'l thing known as allelopathy, an offensive mechanism in which plants (or other organisms) release biochemicals that kill off other competing plants in the immediate vicinity.
—Ben Coxworth
october 20, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
Will July completely kill off the ubiquitous AirTag?
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
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Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
However, in the final scene, the mutant baby returns to kill off half of them in a brutal sequence.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
This phenomenon comes thanks to a li'l thing known as allelopathy, an offensive mechanism in which plants (or other organisms) release biochemicals that kill off other competing plants in the immediate vicinity.
—Ben Coxworth
october 20, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
Will July completely kill off the ubiquitous AirTag?
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kill off
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Totality will last two minutes and 18 seconds as the moon moves directly between Earth and the sun to blot out the latter.—
Marcia Dunn,
Fortune,
28 Dec. 2025
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News and weather reports record that smoke blotted out the Sun on one out of every three days, and sometimes sunlight never pierced the darkness.—
Robert Wyss,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
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She was convicted and fined five times in French courts of inciting racial hatred, in incidents inspired by her opposition to the Muslim practice of slaughtering sheep during annual religious holidays.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Dec. 2025
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In September, at least 89 Christians were reportedly slaughtered by jihadists at a funeral and in surrounding fields.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
28 Dec. 2025
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For his loyalty to his sibling, Kwei receives the unwelcome reward of being massacred in front of a helpless Dek.—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Two months later, more than 100 people were massacred by attackers in Yelwata, a largely Christian community in Benue state, also in the north-central, according to Amnesty International.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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By splicing pop songs and familiar meme formats into cruel detainment footage, ICE strains to attract a younger demographic, hoping to convince people that the agency is a vibrant—and trollishly funny—organization engaged in the noble work of putting away bad guys.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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Simplify tidying by carrying a serving tray through your home and collecting items that need to be put away elsewhere, which will save you from making multiple trips.—
Abby Wolner,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Jan. 2026
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Managers certainly still take out problem coyotes, the ones that are aggressive toward people or become dependent on pets as a food source, but in most cities these are still a tiny percentage of the total coyote population.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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Russia has only intensified its attacks in recent weeks, targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure to take out power with the winter cold at its most intense.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
8 Jan. 2026
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In theory, a superintelligent AI would pursue its own goals, and if those goals are incompatible with sustaining human life, we will be annihilated.—
Andrea Miotti,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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It's designed to match players of similar skills into game lobbies and create a gameplay experience that doesn't pit new or casual players against hard-core players or pros who will likely annihilate them.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Oct. 2025
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Leganes’ Oscar Rodriguez learned this the hard way in May, getting bumped off the ball with the sort of front-footed tackle Agoume enjoys.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
30 June 2025
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YouTube continues to rake in money from advertisers worldwide, with the video giant’s ad revenue reaching $8.93 billion in the first quarter of 2025, up 10.3% year over year — a solid double-digit bump off an already large haul.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2025
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Cormican and sheriff’s deputies spent that afternoon traveling back and forth across the lake at about four miles an hour, as if mowing a lawn, pulling the towfish on a cable behind them.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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Keep your lawn mowed regularly and remove leaf litter that can provide cover.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Kill off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kill%20off. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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