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Vanessa Van Helsing wakes up from a coma to discover that a volcanic eruption has blotted out the sun, letting vampires prey 24/7.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026 -
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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After the next batter struck out, senior third baseman Grant Umbright smashed a single that nearly knocked off the third baseman’s glove before hurtling into left field.—
Matt Le Cren,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr. 2026
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The Orlando Magic knocked off the Detroit Pistons, the top seed in the Eastern Conference.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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At Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year, a few pigs would be slaughtered and the pork rationed out.—
Michael Sheridan,
Vanity Fair,
8 Apr. 2026
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Pigs were illegally slaughtered there.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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Don't put away those winter coats just yet.—
Kyle Reiman,
ABC News,
19 Apr. 2026
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Passengers aboard an Etihad flight out of Abu Dhabi were ordered by crew members to put away their cameras when a flight was evacuated before takeoff during a missile alert.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
13 Apr. 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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Mary is willing to be annihilated and remade.—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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Their radar is 100 percent annihilated.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Vilmanis doing so during the middle of the season when Florida was still in the playoff hunt, Benning to close out the season as essentially the Panthers’ blue line was decimated with injuries down the stretch.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2026
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Docile, furry and cute to some, possums have become an unexpected ally in the effort to slow the invasion of Burmese pythons, a snake that has decimated ecosystems in Florida.—
South Florida Sun Sentinel,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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As many as eight thousand citizens were massacred.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Tradition says that on the 10th of Muharram, Husayn and his companions met Yazid’s military on the battlefield and were massacred.—
Mary Thurlkill,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Killed off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/killed%20off. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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