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Recent Examples of kill off
And won't the heat of the oven kill off any possible bacteria?
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Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
This is simply heating milk to kill off bacteria.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 31 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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Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
This is simply heating milk to kill off bacteria.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 31 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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By then, the fire had burned more than a thousand acres, and the winds were starting to whip; smoke blotted out the setting sun, and the power in the area was down.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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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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In 2022, producers slaughtered more beef cows than ever before in the USDA recordkeeping.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
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Her time out in the world was brief; not long after her escape, she was surrounded by police cars and taken back to the plant, where she was scheduled to be slaughtered in a few days.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
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In total, around 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were massacred, according to the U.N. Most of the victims from the Alawites, a minority group in Syria, which the Assad family belonged to, as well as from the Druze community.—
Chris Massaro,
FOXNews.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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In a statement following an attack days earlier where gunmen massacred at least 40 people in the rural fishing village of Labordrie, just north of the capital, Amnesty International called on Haitian authorities to take action to protect the population.—
Ychmuth Corneille,
Miami Herald,
21 Sep. 2025
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Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw two second-half touchdown passes and Harrison Butker kicked three field goals as Kansas City were able to put away the Giants to get in the winning column for the first time.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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Don’t put away your mower quite yet.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Sep. 2025
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The company highlighted that StormBreaker weapon’s small size enables the use of fewer aircraft to take out the same number of targets as larger weapons that require multiple jets.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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The mortgage documents were taken out at two different credit unions within weeks of each other in 2021.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Oh, and stopping the Soviets from annihilating the world.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
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As a result, Israel preserved its existence without annihilating vast opposition forces.—
ANDRIY ZAGORODNYUK,
Foreign Affairs,
23 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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How To Dethatch Your Lawn The day before dethatching, mow your lawn as usual to trim the grass and remove excess debris from the lawn, then water the lawn lightly.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
22 Sep. 2025
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After months of diligently mowing, weeding, and watering your lawn through summer, don't be tempted to skimp on lawn care at the end of the season.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Sep. 2025
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