Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for killed off
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Childhood photos are also here, bearing the red time stamp from the 1990s and family members whose faces have been blotted out.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025 -
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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The former, on his first Premier League start for his new club, was unable to make much of an impact and was knocked off the ball too easily.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Jacksonville has knocked off the 49ers, Houston Texans, and Carolina Panthers.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 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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The Bills, at times, struggled to put away one of the NFL’s worst teams at home.—
Scott Phillips,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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First thing on New Year’s Day, Lynch posted the video on TikTok and then promptly put away her phone, vowing not to look at the post.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
30 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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The water crisis a decade ago decimated the city and the schools.—
John Wisely,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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One year after Hurricane Helene decimated western North Carolina and parts of Tennessee, Lake Lure Flowering Bridge near Chimney Rock is starting to rebuild—including the beloved Rainbow Bridge.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
2 Oct. 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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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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Just one day before conservative activist Charlie Kirk was murdered, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression published their annual survey of campus free speech scores.—
Angele Latham,
Nashville Tennessean,
1 Oct. 2025
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The drama follows Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) as a detective called in to investigate the 1987 massacre of four scientists brutally murdered in inexplicable ways, with a lone survivor the obvious suspect.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Killed off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/killed%20off. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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