as in blotted out
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While an investigation is underway, police estimated during a press conference on Wednesday that the number of trees cut down was 11, according to KNBC.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
24 Apr. 2025 -
Some employees had been furloughed to cut down on costs, and Outside had developed a reputation for not paying freelancers in a timely manner.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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Sam Bennett scored an empty net goal with three seconds remaining to put away the victory.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Explain how responsibility for personal items—a cup, a fork, a plate, or a lunchbox–only takes seconds to put away or clean properly.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 2025
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The cuts also decimated many of the agency's top recruits, enlisted through a program known as the Cyber Talent Management System, plus analysts with top-secret security clearances.—
Nicole Sganga,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2025
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The outbreak also decimated local reindeer populations, with over 2,300 animals succumbing to the disease.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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In October, the United Nations said least 70 people, including women and children, were massacred by the Gran Grif gang in the same Artibonite town where the officer was killed on Tuesday.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2025
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Ancestors from his paternal side survived the Sand Creek Massacre, while many of his ancestors from his maternal side were mutilated and massacred there; and at other genocidal campaigns that followed.—
Phillip Whiteman Jr.,
The Denver Post,
23 Mar. 2025
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In the 1970s, dark-haired, slender, and possessing considerable charm, this lethal Romeo wooed, won, and then murdered four women.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
23 Mar. 2025
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He’s murdered, essentially, and the Innies have run amok.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
23 Mar. 2025
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Rory McIlroy was 4-under through 13 but finished even after double-bogeys on 15 and 17.—
Bob Spear,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Apr. 2025
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McIlroy corkscrewed through a front-nine 33 and a back-nine 39 and finished even par.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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