as in to blot out
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Recent Examples of kill off
Then Covid-19 struck and seemingly killed off the idea again.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
From its very first episode, Agatha All Along went to great lengths to show us that, even with WandaVision’s lead killed off in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, there was still plenty of — and perhaps too much — meat for Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness to chew on.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2024
Sheridan summarily killed off Dutton in the opening moments of the back half of Season 5, which premiered Nov. 10 with an inglorious, bloody bathroom gunshot death made to look like a suicide.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
And when you’re done with the dishes, put the sponge in the dishwasher, where the heat will kill off potential pathogens.
—Alyssa Shaffer, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2024
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
From its very first episode, Agatha All Along went to great lengths to show us that, even with WandaVision’s lead killed off in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, there was still plenty of — and perhaps too much — meat for Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness to chew on.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2024
Sheridan summarily killed off Dutton in the opening moments of the back half of Season 5, which premiered Nov. 10 with an inglorious, bloody bathroom gunshot death made to look like a suicide.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
And when you’re done with the dishes, put the sponge in the dishwasher, where the heat will kill off potential pathogens.
—Alyssa Shaffer, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2024
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There are tens of millions of people who live along a narrow stretch from Mexico’s Pacific Coast to eastern Canada, otherwise known as the path of totality, where locals and travelers gazed skyward to see the moon fully blot out the sun.Anna Furman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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The wait is long over until eclipse viewers have their only chance until 2044 to witness totality, the event in which the moon will completely block the sun's disc, blotting out the light and casting the world below in its uncanny shadow.American-Statesman staff, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
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For Schaeffler’s global factories, however, the focus is on localizing and consolidating more operations into one location closer to the customer, to cut down on shipping, logistics, storage, and CO2 footprint.Carolyn Schwaar, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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The Petaluma Reusable Cup initiative creates a system for patrons to reuse cups from local restaurants, cafes and coffee shops in an effort to cut down on waste.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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On a freezing January morning in 1863, American soldiers attacked a Northwestern Shoshone camp along the Bear River in what is now Idaho and slaughtered hundreds of Shoshone people in what is most likely the largest massacre of Native people in the US on a single day.Joseph Lee, Vox, 26 Nov. 2024
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The agricultural industry has long focused on animal welfare within the context of the food system, and there have been industry-wide efforts to slaughter animals in the most humane way possible.Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024
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Having them in a memorial site honoring the people massacred is the right decision to make.Smithsonian magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
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Iran funds Hamas, the terrorist group that invaded and brutally massacred innocent Israelis, mostly youth, in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.Diane Gensler, Baltimore Sun, 20 Nov. 2024
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Southwest Airlines will start landing procedures at a higher altitude, requiring travelers to fasten their seatbelts and put away laptops and tray tables earlier in the flight.Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
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Bemidji State 20, Western Colorado 19: With the Mountaineers driving to put away their second playoff victory in as many weeks, fate took a cruel turn.Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 30 Nov. 2024
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The move to Linwood forced Bowman to take out several loans that left her in debt.Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 13 Dec. 2024
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Community supported agriculture aims to give everyone a stake in the ups and downs of farming — if a pest takes out an entire crop of broccoli, there’s no broccoli that season.Jana Rose Schleis, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Putin also definitively wants to annihilate Ukrainian national identity, and views the conversion of Ukrainian children into faithful Russians as a major component of his criminal undertaking.Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 3 Nov. 2024
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Colorado was getting annihilated every week under Karl Dorrell.Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024
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And the American women were, plainly, awful for the first 20 minutes, kicking the ball all over creation, getting bumped off their spots on the floor regularly and losing the energy battle to the ferocious French defenders.David Aldridge, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024
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The camera follows the dog into a retro tiled bathroom, where Elizabeth Berkley is sitting in a shell-pink bathtub wearing a matching silk robe cutting grotesque black bumps off of her leg.Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
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“Kill off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kill%20off. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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