as in eradicates
to destroy all traces of
he didn't get his gambling under control until he had already wiped out his entire life savings
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Recent Examples of wipes out
Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans.
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Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet.
—Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
And the Netgear Orbi 770 Wi-Fi 7 mesh system, now $200 cheaper, wipes out dead zones across 8,000 square feet with blazing speeds and easy setup.
—PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025
Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet.
—Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
And the Netgear Orbi 770 Wi-Fi 7 mesh system, now $200 cheaper, wipes out dead zones across 8,000 square feet with blazing speeds and easy setup.
—PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wipes out
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Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
1 Sep. 2025
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The win improves the Bills' record to 5-2 and erases some of the pain from their two-game losing streak.—
Anne Erickson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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The Amazon Basin builds and erases its own geography through its rivers.—
Isa Cardona,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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Instead, this measure abolishes them.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Aug. 2025
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Each participant had lost central vision in one eye due to dry AMD, which destroys light-sensitive macular cells over time.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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An arson fire destroys the 43-year-old Globe Theatre on March 8 (the arsonist was never caught, but a firebug had set several blazes in the park that winter).—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Oct. 2025
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