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as in assassinated
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 snuffed
Lack of support has snuffed out a restaurant and lounge popular among Black Charlotteans, owners say.
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Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 16 Jan. 2026
That same scenario played out in one of our counties just a few years ago, and a 14-year-old’s life was snuffed out because of it.
—Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2026
These attacks snuffed out at least 115 lives last year.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Dissent has been quashed and protests, once a daily feature of life in Hong Kong, have been snuffed out.
—Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
Unfortunately, unlike other Michelin three-stars that had the chance to reopen after the pandemic shut down the world, Meadowood’s efforts were snuffed out by natural disaster.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2025
The messy, vibrant democracy of my youth is a distant memory, snuffed out by a quarter century of ever harsher authoritarianism.
—Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Potential big inning snuffed out, and Milwaukee got two baserunners the rest of the way against starter Tyler Glasnow.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
The cabin’s eight electric lights snuffed out.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 16 Jan. 2026
That same scenario played out in one of our counties just a few years ago, and a 14-year-old’s life was snuffed out because of it.
—Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2026
These attacks snuffed out at least 115 lives last year.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Dissent has been quashed and protests, once a daily feature of life in Hong Kong, have been snuffed out.
—Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
Unfortunately, unlike other Michelin three-stars that had the chance to reopen after the pandemic shut down the world, Meadowood’s efforts were snuffed out by natural disaster.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2025
The messy, vibrant democracy of my youth is a distant memory, snuffed out by a quarter century of ever harsher authoritarianism.
—Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Potential big inning snuffed out, and Milwaukee got two baserunners the rest of the way against starter Tyler Glasnow.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
The cabin’s eight electric lights snuffed out.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snuffed
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McDermott brought legitimacy to an organization that had not sniffed a playoff.—
Gladys Louise Tyler,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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School can be an awful place, where social capital is built on a person’s acceptance by a group, and any difference is sniffed out and mocked, sometimes worse.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Jan. 2026
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In September, Kirk was assassinated in front of three thousand students at Utah Valley University while debating a liberal audience member about gun control.—
Charles Duhigg,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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He was assassinated that night.—
Matt Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Officers smelled marijuana in her vehicle and then found the 31-pound cannabis cargo.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
23 Jan. 2026
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When officers arrived, Clark reportedly smelled of alcohol, TMZ reported Thursday, citing a police source.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2026
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James Folta Talks to Bookseller Angela Schwesnedl Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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Eger watched her parents taken away to the gas chambers where more than a million people, primarily of Jewish descent, were murdered.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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These tiny water droplets—aerosol plumes, according to commercial cleaning expert Shari Cedar—can be inhaled and cover towels, countertops, and, yes, even your toothbrush after a flush.—
Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
17 Jan. 2026
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Football leans on tradition, providing convenient cover for the NFL’s lenient stance on smelling salts, ammonia crystals that players believe enhance performance when inhaled.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was summarily executed in the street.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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His death sentence echoes the case of Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari, who was executed in September 2020.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Two days shy of the one-year anniversary of a tragedy that killed 67 people near the nation’s capital, the National Transportation Safety Board will meet to determine the probable cause of the midair collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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The fire killed two people, destroyed 1,084 homes and businesses and did more than $2 billion in property damage.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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