Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for killed off
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News and weather reports record that smoke blotted out the Sun on one out of every three days, and sometimes sunlight never pierced the darkness.—
Robert Wyss,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025 -
Urban skyglow has robbed many of us of our night skies and the vast majority of the population of the United States now lives in regions where the stars are mostly blotted out by excessive lighting.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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The Vikings knocked off Troy and the winningest coach in California history, Kevin Kiernan, in the quarterfinals.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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Gibbons knocked off North Broward Prep 1-0 in the other semifinal.—
Chris Hays,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 Feb. 2026
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In deeply conservative Aceh province, animals are slaughtered during Meugang festivities, the meat cooked and shared with family, friends, poor people and orphans.—
Mariam Fam,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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The Kurds have been marginalized, persecuted and slaughtered by the likes of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and before those states existed, the Ottoman Empire.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Pannakara urged the crowd to practice mindfulness every day and put away their phones.—
Sarah Bahari,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Feb. 2026
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The couple aims to put away about $1,200 a month, hoping to someday have enough saved for a down payment on a house.—
Eliza Shapiro,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 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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You were supposed to be annihilated.—
Lesley Stahl,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
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The grief and guilt annihilated our worth.—
Jennifer W. Tsai,
STAT,
18 Jan. 2026
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First identified in 1927, coffee wilt disease decimated several varieties of coffee grown in western and central Africa.—
Lily Peck,
The Conversation,
17 Feb. 2026
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Israel’s attacks decimated Iran’s air defenses and targeted its ballistic missile arsenal as well.—
Jamey Keaten,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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Hamas fighters swept across the border fence from Gaza and massacred more than 1,000 people.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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Today Iranians are mourning thousands of their fellow citizens who were massacred during savage crackdowns on recent protests in Iran.—
Ramin Jahanbegloo,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Killed off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/killed%20off. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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