as in to blot out
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Recent Examples of kill off
Pasteurization Lowers the Risk of Getting Sick From Raw Eggs
Pasteurization can make eggs safer, as the process is intended to inactivate viruses and kill off bacteria.
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Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Within three weeks, the show was revived without Barr — whose character was killed off — in the spinoff The Conners.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
The additional half hour of play meant that Camavinga racked up around 50 minutes on the field in total, as Endrick and Fede Valverde killed off the Galicians with their goals.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Trump reportedly tasked his transition team with coming up with a 100-day strategy to kill off the reporting requirement.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025
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Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Within three weeks, the show was revived without Barr — whose character was killed off — in the spinoff The Conners.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
The additional half hour of play meant that Camavinga racked up around 50 minutes on the field in total, as Endrick and Fede Valverde killed off the Galicians with their goals.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Trump reportedly tasked his transition team with coming up with a 100-day strategy to kill off the reporting requirement.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kill off
Verb
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The Earth casts a shadow that can partially or totally blot out the moon.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2025
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At every turn, President Donald Trump and his oligarchic allies, the real-life embodiment of Mr. Burns, are trying to blot out the sun by filling the skies with so much bull**** that no one knows what's what. Consider Trump's alliance with the billionaire tech bro class.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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Trump could attempt to cut down the sometimes interminable permitting process for the transmission lines that carry that electricity to data centers.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2025
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Reducing these avoidable medical crises would dramatically cut down on the need for costly treatments, emergency room visits and hospital admissions.—
Robert Pearl,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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The Minervois is a sunny land of black truffles, red marble, oak and juniper forests and castles constructed by Cathars (pescatarian Christians who disdained the symbol of the cross, were branded as heretics and subsequently slaughtered wholesale by Papal decree in the 13th century).—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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As a result of the spread, infected birds have been selectively slaughtered across the country, sometimes millions of birds at a single location.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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The first season ended with Joel making the shocking decision to massacre a group of Fireflies, who planned to use Elle's immunity to make a cure for the infection but at the cost of her life.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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Combat can often be janky, with some weapons feeling floaty and imprecise, enemies sometimes bugging out, frozen in place for the party to massacre.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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When Jake Chung comes in from the Harvard-Westlake bullpen ready to unleash his 80 mph, scouts put away their radar guns.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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This assistance might involve running errands, putting away groceries or dishes, making meals or reminding seniors to take their medications.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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The Tennessee Titans basically took out a billboard and put the No. 1 overall pick up for sale during new GM Mike Borgonzi’s press conference in January.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2025
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In the black-and-white video, the mother of three was sitting in a chair with a vomit bag over her mouth as the staples were taken out of her scalp.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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With all of this being said, Teyana annihilated the other looks that were at the Vanity Fair Oscar party.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
3 Mar. 2025
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If not for Hunt, we’d have been annihilated on the glass.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
25 Feb. 2025
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The jury had not yet decided on punitive damages when the settlement was reached. Meta and X, formerly Twitter, paid Trump $25 million and $10 million respectively to resolve his suits seeking damages for being bumped off the sites after the January 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
21 Feb. 2025
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Miller was bumped off the top power-play unit in favour of Jonathan Lekkerimäki.—
Harman Dayal,
The Athletic,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Kill off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kill%20off. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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