as in to blot out
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Recent Examples of kill off
Other alternatives to spraying include laying down cardboard or dark plastic to suffocate weeds, though this can take weeks to kill off weeds.
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Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026
As of this writing, Asbille has yet to speak publicly about the decision to kill off Monica.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Mar. 2026
Otherwise, Camara was excellent in helping kill off the other six penalties, as well as 41 seconds of 5-on-3.
—Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
Last year, Kennedy proposed allowing bird flu to run rampant on the nation’s poultry farms, so as to kill off all the weakest chickens.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
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Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026
As of this writing, Asbille has yet to speak publicly about the decision to kill off Monica.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Mar. 2026
Otherwise, Camara was excellent in helping kill off the other six penalties, as well as 41 seconds of 5-on-3.
—Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
Last year, Kennedy proposed allowing bird flu to run rampant on the nation’s poultry farms, so as to kill off all the weakest chickens.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kill off
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Then a perusal of several studies that spanned decades and oceans made my hypothesis cloudy enough to blot out that April Fools’ Day moon.—
Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
12 Apr. 2026
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Most people never get to experience a total solar eclipse, when the moon blots out the disk of the sun and reveals its fiery outermost atmospheric layer, or corona.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
6 Apr. 2026
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At Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year, a few pigs would be slaughtered and the pork rationed out.—
Michael Sheridan,
Vanity Fair,
8 Apr. 2026
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Pigs were illegally slaughtered there.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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As many as eight thousand citizens were massacred.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Iran is at war, and its regime, after massacring protesters in January, has now hardened in combat.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2026
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Don't put away those winter coats just yet.—
Kyle Reiman,
ABC News,
19 Apr. 2026
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Passengers aboard an Etihad flight out of Abu Dhabi were ordered by crew members to put away their cameras when a flight was evacuated before takeoff during a missile alert.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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Dahl is also remembered for his bigotry — editions of his children’s books have been edited to take out fatphobic and misogynist comments, and the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory had to be tweaked so the title character didn’t come off as a plantation owner.—
Elisabeth Garber-Paul,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2026
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Wouldn’t this character be aghast at the amount of random citizens taken out in these endless firefights?—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
18 Apr. 2026
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Mary is willing to be annihilated and remade.—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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Investors were suddenly gripped with the fear that AI would annihilate software companies of every kind.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
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Ioane charged and offloaded to Tommaso Menoncello, who bumped off Elliot Daly and passed inside to midfield partner Marin to finish off.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Midway through, Clinton is bumped off at a monastery while dressed as a monk in Raquel Welch drag, and his guests must unravel the crime.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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In mixed turf, mow to the height for the predominant species in your lawn.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
18 Apr. 2026
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Any HOAs that have purely decorative mowed grass common areas inaccessible to residents should plan on either supplying those areas with reclaimed water or removing mowed turf from such inaccessible locations before 2029.—
Kelly G. Richardson,
Oc Register,
17 Apr. 2026
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