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as in to assassinate
to put to death deliberately
the proprietor of the boarding house had apparently snuffed almost 50 old men before she was caught
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Recent Examples of snuff
The cabin’s eight electric lights snuffed out.
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Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
The Chiefs’ lone sack, with initial pressure from Jones and the finish by Charles Omenihu, snuffed out the Lions’ last best chance.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
Rookie defenseman Zeev Buium added a third period power play marker — his first career goal — but again Columbus snuffed out the momentum with a quick answer.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
Neither skill was up to snuff in the first two weeks.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
The Chiefs’ lone sack, with initial pressure from Jones and the finish by Charles Omenihu, snuffed out the Lions’ last best chance.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
Rookie defenseman Zeev Buium added a third period power play marker — his first career goal — but again Columbus snuffed out the momentum with a quick answer.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
Neither skill was up to snuff in the first two weeks.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snuff
Verb
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Several reports over the last few weeks had the Broncos sniffing around at offensive additions, primarily at wide receiver.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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The Ovechkin puck would likely garner a pretty penny, if not now, then sometime in the future, as no other active NHL player is sniffing around 700 career goals.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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An elite Iranian military unit plotted to assassinate the Israeli ambassador to Mexico, according to a US official familiar with the matter.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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The film, which won the top documentary prize at the Seattle International Film Festival, takes a fascinating look at Sara Jane Moore, the suburban housewife who bizarrely tried to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco in September 1975.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Later, the sleeper-inners among the season’s house guests will stumble downstairs well after the whole house has started to smell, well, like Thanksgiving.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
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Open air is what [Texas] smells like.—
Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Within a few years of leaving Texas, Rauschenberg had upended everything the place had meant to him, smashing through the parochialism of small-town Southern life, where necks were broken in Jesus’ name, and families indentured or murdered.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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However, ruthless bounty hunter Leo Bonhart has already murdered the gang.—
Griff Griffin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Jet fuels and other petroleum products are refined from crude oil, and contain chemicals that are toxic to humans when inhaled.—
Connor Giffin,
Louisville Courier Journal,
5 Nov. 2025
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Sprays are easy to apply to skin or clothing but must be used with caution as they can also be inhaled.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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But Kwei, in the first display of mercy or kindness that Dek has ever seen, refuses to slay his own brother.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
4 Nov. 2025
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Desperate to prove his mettle, Dek seeks out a terrifying creature of Yautja lore, determined to be the first of his kind to slay it.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Mamdani will face high expectations and even higher barriers to executing an agenda that includes enormous bureaucratic, political, and logistic hurdles.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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To the credit of general manager Joe Hortiz and coach Jim Harbaugh, the Chargers identified a piece and executed a deal ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline despite limiting factors.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Most of the strikes occur in the summer, killing 20 people each year, according to the NWS.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Nov. 2025
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Four people were killed over a four-day period in crashes on Arkansas highways, according to preliminary Arkansas State Police reports.—
Daniel McFadin,
Arkansas Online,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Snuff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuff. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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