as in to blot out
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Recent Examples of kill off
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.
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
Another project: the return of the dodo, which was killed off about 350 years ago.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Now, another fan-favorite character is in danger of getting killed off.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 10 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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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
Another project: the return of the dodo, which was killed off about 350 years ago.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Now, another fan-favorite character is in danger of getting killed off.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 10 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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These small banks are slaughtering the low expectations the market set for them.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
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Ikejime is the technique used by Japanese fishermen for centuries to slaughter fish instantly and humanely by inserting a spike into the brain.—
Akiko Katayama,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 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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Finally, the 2025 list massacred the stable of eligible plug-in hybrids.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
26 Aug. 2025
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Anything that's safe to store in these rooms should still be put away in an airtight plastic container with a lid to keep environmental elements out.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
3 Sep. 2025
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Here in his little 80-page grin-inducing edition published by Titan Books featuring those intimidating Klingons during their downtime, Spiotto lets his imagination run rampant in envisioning just what existence is like after the antagonism and combat plans are put away.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Unlike Ragebound, where most bad guys can be killed with a single blow, Art of Vengeance has more methodical battle systems, requiring players to utilize specific combos and abilities to take out certain enemy types.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
3 Sep. 2025
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To replace the battery, the user just needs to remove the ear pads, open the battery compartment and take out the battery.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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How is annihilating the world a good defensive measure?—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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An example of that is the suggestion that certain dark matter candidates could become trapped in neutron stars, gathering and gradually annihilating each other thus heating these stellar remnants.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Aug. 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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Under the new process, property owners will still receive a notice when a violation occurs, but if the issue is not corrected within seven days, the Parks and Recreation Department will step in to mow or clean the property, the release states.—
NWA Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
3 Sep. 2025
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Even though the weather is much more tolerable than in the hot summer months, once that fall feeling arrives, the end of mowing the grass for the year is in sight.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2025
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