as in to blot out
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Recent Examples of kill off
Sunflower seed hulls can kill off grass if allowed to build up.
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Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 May 2025
Florida killed off the Carolina power play early in the second period.
—Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2025
Clean energy investment was worth $2.1 trillion in 2024, and while America’s clean energy economy has boomed since 2022, ceding this economic opportunity by killing off a fast-growing industry will hand that investment and jobs growth to competitors like China and the European Union.
—Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
Halfway through Season 2, the AMC drama killed off not one or two but three characters and forewarned us that a fourth wouldn’t be around for much longer.
—Charlie Mason, TVLine, 1 June 2025
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Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 May 2025
Florida killed off the Carolina power play early in the second period.
—Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2025
Clean energy investment was worth $2.1 trillion in 2024, and while America’s clean energy economy has boomed since 2022, ceding this economic opportunity by killing off a fast-growing industry will hand that investment and jobs growth to competitors like China and the European Union.
—Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
Halfway through Season 2, the AMC drama killed off not one or two but three characters and forewarned us that a fourth wouldn’t be around for much longer.
—Charlie Mason, TVLine, 1 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kill off
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One of the funnels of the great liner blotted out part of the sky, and its stern was high in the air.—
Jim Shepard,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
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Here, what animates the score is not lust that blots out reason or the redemptive power of love.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
13 May 2025
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At the same time, the world’s largest biomass company, Drax, is cutting down trees across North America with a promise to sell them as a replacement for fossil fuels.—
Tom Brown,
Wired News,
14 June 2025
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This cuts down on frustration at checkout, reduces cart abandonment and builds trust.—
Uttam Kumar,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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The alien’s plan is the same across the first three of the movie’s four segments: Let the humans slaughter each other, and then ambush the last — and presumably strongest — warrior standing as a test of its own skill as a hunter.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
5 June 2025
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The Romans slaughtered the native inhabitants, thereby bringing a sudden violent end to the Iron Age.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
31 May 2025
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Sophie was working as a laundress at a federal boarding school in Pine Ridge when federal troops massacred some 250 Native people at nearby Wounded Knee in 1890.—
Smithsonian Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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When civil war broke out in Libya in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring, the U.S. and European countries launched an air war against Libya to prevent Gaddafi from massacring opponents of his government.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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Kevin Verville agreed to put away groceries while Sheila drove his wife and baby to the agency office to fill out paperwork.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 June 2025
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But Thuram’s injury and Marko Arnautovic’s misses in the first leg of their last-16 clash stopped Inter from putting away Atletico Madrid, who seized on a mistake by Benjamin Pavard to come back from 1-0 down in the second leg and 2-0 down in the tie to knock them out.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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The operation included actions inland, including overnight parachute landings on strategic German sites and U.S. Army Rangers scaling cliffs to take out German gun positions.—
Medianews Group,
Hartford Courant,
4 June 2025
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Cuomo’s spokesman, Rich Azzopardi, told the newspaper that the investigation is an attempt by the president to take out one of Eric Adams' strongest competitors.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
3 June 2025
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Once again, the film is about the anguish of losing a loved one and the the desire to connect with the dead one more time, the annihilating madness of grief driving a person to unspeakable ends.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2025
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Apparently the Entity, aided once again by its human helpmate Gabriel (Esai Morales), is set to annihilate humankind in four days unless Ethan and Ethan alone can disable it.—
Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
22 May 2025
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YouTube continues to rake in money from advertisers worldwide, with the video giant’s ad revenue reaching $8.93 billion in the first quarter of 2025, up 10.3% year over year — a solid double-digit bump off an already large haul.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2025
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She was thrust into J.J. Yeley’s car as she was bumped off the starting grid because of ownership points.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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