as in to bomb
to defeat by a large margin
man, they totally smoked us today!
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Recent Examples of smoke
Tara Molina,
CBS News,
25 June 2026
But with options ranging from thick-cut to center-cut, smoked to dry-rubbed, and organic or conventional, how is a shopper supposed to know which brand has the best bacon?
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Karla Walsh,
Southern Living,
25 June 2026
Iris Salem,
CBS News,
20 June 2026
Dark plumes of smoke could be seen above the resort compound along the Caribbean coastline.
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Mike Snider,
USA Today,
20 June 2026
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Verb
Body worn cameras caught one of those arrests at the 79th Street CTA Red Line station, in which sheriff's officers saw a man smoking marijuana on the train and, in the process of taking him into custody for disorderly conduct, found a gun on him.
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Tara Molina,
CBS News,
25 June 2026
But with options ranging from thick-cut to center-cut, smoked to dry-rubbed, and organic or conventional, how is a shopper supposed to know which brand has the best bacon?
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Karla Walsh,
Southern Living,
25 June 2026
Noun
Residents were advised that while smoke may be irritating—particularly for those sensitive to air quality—there is currently no order for evacuation or shelter-in-place, despite a similar order already having been issued and lifted twice since the fire's ignition.
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Iris Salem,
CBS News,
20 June 2026
Dark plumes of smoke could be seen above the resort compound along the Caribbean coastline.
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Mike Snider,
USA Today,
20 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoke
Verb
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The Battle of Britain began as German forces bombed shipping convoys in the English Channel, attacking its ports and radar stations.
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Another bad fix bombing out the moment it was most needed.
Noun
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Best steam cleaners This compact cleaner can easily clean hard-to-reach areas, thanks to its 15-foot cord and 9-foot hose.
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In contrast, upgrading compressor or steam systems is bread-and-butter work; large manufacturers are far more comfortable with those standard interventions.
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Its stock exposure can sit at nought or at full, so its behaviour in a sharp fall hangs entirely on whether BAILA reads the danger in time.
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Now, Lewis — who returned from a demotion to Triple A last Saturday — is demonstrating that those efforts might not have been for naught.
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The courses can be tiny, from a teeny teacup of hot chicken broth infused with the aged Alpine echo of Pleasant Ridge Reserve cheese or a squiggly sweet funnel cake dusted with spicebush berry sugar.
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The small airport serves around 30 aircraft, all privately owned, including crop dusting companies and sky dive operators, Jacobs said.
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Poor caching quietly increases latency, cloud cost, battery usage and backend load at scale.
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Channel the optimism of a 2016 summer with short nails that look like clouds of cotton candy.
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For some of us, this is a very counterintuitive notion, as the notion of things existing within and moving through some form of empty nothingness just doesn’t make any sense.
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As Bastian reads, a boy named Atreyu (Noah Hathaway), while pursued by a green-eyed creature called G’mork (Alan Oppenheimer), is dispatched by the Childlike Empress (Tami Stronach) to find the cure for the mysterious nothingness enveloping the kingdom.
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Rather than be benched, Devers batted cleanup, overcame an 0-for-3 start, and singled up the middle in the seventh to score Bryce Eldridge, who narrowly beat a tag at the plate for a 3-1 lead.
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Its highly specialized strategy likely evolved to take advantage of the ant’s natural aggression and then overcome its defenses; the slingshot mechanism flings the ant from the foraging trail, reducing the risk that the spider will be swarmed by other workers, the researchers hypothesized.
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The report points to the adoption and use of Airbus' A320s — the world's best-selling aircraft — which United, American, and Delta Air Lines currently operate, as a contributing factor to the increase in fume events.
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To top it off, the X-Shinobi yachts are equipped with hybrid diesel-electric propulsion systems, ensuring a quiet and fume-free cruising experience for guests while helping to reduce the environmental impact of marine tourism.
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“Smoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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