as in to blot out
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Recent Examples of kill off
As of this writing, Asbille has yet to speak publicly about the decision to kill off Monica.
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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
Trump last year had pushed in his NASA budget request, which Congress ignored, to kill off the existing reliance on SLS and Orion after Artemis III.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
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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
Trump last year had pushed in his NASA budget request, which Congress ignored, to kill off the existing reliance on SLS and Orion after Artemis III.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kill off
Verb
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Is the army coming, blotting out the sun?—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
23 Mar. 2026
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During her first bombing, Ginny had run for shelter into a perfume shop, where the proprietress methodically moved each bottle from the streetfront vitrine into a neat line on the floor as the dust from the percussive bombs blotted out the sun.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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But news of Anthropic testing its most powerful AI model yet slaughtered enterprise software stocks Friday.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2026
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The elders will die, abandoned by their children, and their reindeer will be slaughtered or absorbed into bigger industrial-sized herds.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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In fact, high inflation triggered mass protests in December and January, prompting the regime to massacre tens of thousands of its own citizens.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
23 Mar. 2026
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But vigilante movements in Mexico historically get co-opted by rival cartels or massacred, creating a dangerous spiral that could worsen after recent cartel leadership deaths.—
Megan Janetsky,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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And the bullpen highlighted by Carlos Estevez and Lucas Erceg augmented by the addition of Matt Strahm figures to give them an advantage in putting away games.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2026
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The winter scarves and hat baskets can be put away and allow for an airy entry into the home.—
Elly Leavitt,
Vogue,
26 Mar. 2026
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Maybe take out those fast boats or mines that are along the water.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Is that enough to take out a Russian warship?—
Holly Williams,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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The trap confined 92 antiprotons in a vacuum, as any contact with air would annihilate them.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2026
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Gautier Hamel de Monchenault, CERN director for research and computing, hailed the feat as remarkable, as antimatter is difficult to preserve and annihilates on contact with matter.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Mar. 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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The grass is freshly mowed, the dirt and chalk lines finely groomed.—
Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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The commission agreed to allow Earthrise to mow the property only once between May and October, rather than five times as required by statute, as the company said more mowings could negatively affect native pollinators and habitats.—
Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Kill off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kill%20off. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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