Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for killed off
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News and weather reports record that smoke blotted out the Sun on one out of every three days, and sometimes sunlight never pierced the darkness.—
Robert Wyss,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025 -
Urban skyglow has robbed many of us of our night skies and the vast majority of the population of the United States now lives in regions where the stars are mostly blotted out by excessive lighting.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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Last season, the Eagles knocked off Ontario Christian in the regionals.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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Like a giant beast, the kids in the crowd flung their missiles toward the stage and their predator, who clearly was knocked off his game by the intensity of the reaction.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Kurds have been marginalized, persecuted and slaughtered by the likes of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and before those states existed, the Ottoman Empire.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Thousands of English troops were being slaughtered in the trench warfare against Germany.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
15 Jan. 2026
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Raw chicken was stored above ready-to-eat salsa, knives were put away without being properly cleaned and some cooking sauce was dispensed out of unlabled containers.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Feb. 2026
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Don't put away that winter jacket just yet.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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Midway through, Clinton is bumped off at a monastery while dressed as a monk in Raquel Welch drag, and his guests must unravel the crime.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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The grief and guilt annihilated our worth.—
Jennifer W. Tsai,
STAT,
18 Jan. 2026
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Her anger stems from a catastrophic event that annihilated the clan's homeland.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Dec. 2025
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The 2023 Hamas attacks that killed some 1,200 people in Israel, including 378 people at the Nova music festival, spurred a military response that has decimated Gaza and resulted in at least 70,000 deaths.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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Decades of strife—the 11-year War of Independence that ended in 1975, which was followed by a civil war that lasted from 1977 to 1992—left the nation decimated.—
Lisa Grainger,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Feb. 2026
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Hamas fighters swept across the border fence from Gaza and massacred more than 1,000 people.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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Today Iranians are mourning thousands of their fellow citizens who were massacred during savage crackdowns on recent protests in Iran.—
Ramin Jahanbegloo,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Killed off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/killed%20off. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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