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Recent Examples of kill off
This is simply heating milk to kill off bacteria.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Whether facing global warming that turned large swaths of land into deserts or cooling that killed off the dinosaurs, coral evolved.
—Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
And Morrow’s ability to knock the Xenmorph out, even briefly, with a taser rifle feels like an awkward shortcut for a TV show that can’t just have the thing kill off all the ongoing characters at once.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
Microsoft announced the decision to kill off the three-decade-old Microsoft Publisher back in March, with an October 2026 end-of-life date, citing how most of its functionality had now been incorporated in other Microsoft 365 apps such as Word and PowerPoint.
—PC Magazine, 9 Aug. 2025
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Whether facing global warming that turned large swaths of land into deserts or cooling that killed off the dinosaurs, coral evolved.
—Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
And Morrow’s ability to knock the Xenmorph out, even briefly, with a taser rifle feels like an awkward shortcut for a TV show that can’t just have the thing kill off all the ongoing characters at once.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
Microsoft announced the decision to kill off the three-decade-old Microsoft Publisher back in March, with an October 2026 end-of-life date, citing how most of its functionality had now been incorporated in other Microsoft 365 apps such as Word and PowerPoint.
—PC Magazine, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kill off
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Unfortunately, the 2025 Perseids happened to coincide with the appearance of a waxing gibbous moon, which bleached the sky with moonlight, blotting out all but the brightest members of the ancient meteor shower.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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That's because, then as now, people wanted sedatives to calm their anxieties, to blot out a cruel world, or simply to get a good night's sleep.—
Nate Anderson,
ArsTechnica,
7 Aug. 2025
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Of the 300,000 Chinese slaughtered by the Japanese Imperial Army during a six-week period, most were civilians who were were bayoneted, machine-gunned and burned alive.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
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This lesson plan includes no discussion of how, in the name of socialism and equality, Cold War despots in Russia, Romania, Poland and other Eastern Bloc counties slaughtered innocents, seized property and sunk their countries into starvation-level poverty.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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The visitors ended up massacring a village, which left her devastated.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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Principals told to stop calling police chief There was so much chaos in the minutes after the gunman entered the classrooms and massacred the children and teachers inside that school police chief Arredondo called the district’s communication chief for help.—
Matthew J. Friedman,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
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In a contest that quickly became a matter of which team could shoot itself in the foot less, the Broncos put away the Titans 20-12 Sunday for a season-opening win at Empower Field.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
7 Sep. 2025
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Its marketing materials show robots handing an apple to a human, making coffee, putting away groceries and dishes, pouring drinks, and watering plants.—
Maya Cakmak,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 Sep. 2025
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The 2022 bare-knuckle holiday sensation Violent Night followed an embittered Santa, armed with lethal combat skills, who takes out a team of ruthless mercenaries to rescue a girl and her family.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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Seniors are often the last to find out when a scammer has taken out a loan or opened a card in their name.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Sense-annihilating dreck has become a generational identity that these kids can claim as their own.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
10 Sep. 2025
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Release the hostages and lay down your weapons—or Gaza will be destroyed, and you will be annihilated.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 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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Avoid heavy foot traffic on the grass and don’t mow it.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
8 Sep. 2025
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Even a person mowing their lawn on a windy day might send embers into the air.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Kill off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kill%20off. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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