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Recent Examples of kill off
His character, patriarch John Dutton, was eventually killed off in the premiere of season 5, part 2.
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Esther Kang, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
The award-winning filmmaker's character was shockingly killed off in the season 5B premiere in November 2024.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
That said, the only way that Sheridan could proceed without the big guy was by killing off John Dutton.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
Trump’s move effectively killed off Johnson’s bill, which was more than 1,500 pages long and included a number of concessions to Democrats that infuriated conservatives, rank-and-file GOP members and Elon Musk.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024
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Esther Kang, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
The award-winning filmmaker's character was shockingly killed off in the season 5B premiere in November 2024.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
That said, the only way that Sheridan could proceed without the big guy was by killing off John Dutton.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
Trump’s move effectively killed off Johnson’s bill, which was more than 1,500 pages long and included a number of concessions to Democrats that infuriated conservatives, rank-and-file GOP members and Elon Musk.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024
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California 5 dead, more than 1,100 structures destroyed as firestorm besieges L.A. County 16 minutes ago Within three hours, black smoke billowing down from the hills blotted out the sun as locals fled, streets jammed with cars, and anxiety turned to flat-out panic.Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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Radioactive fallout and nuclear winter, in which dust and smoke blot out the sun, would mean the extinction of most life on Earth.Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
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In the past, as many as 12 designers participated, but with the date change, there was also a cut down in the number of designers participating.Essence, Essence, 6 Jan. 2025
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And research suggests that cutting down on them might benefit our health.Jancee Dunn, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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When a wagon train of emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California passed through the area, Mormon militiamen surrounded the group and brutally slaughtered more than 100 men, women, and children.Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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The action is put in motion by a real-life (and really bloody) event: the Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which church militia members slaughtered some 120 members of an emigrant wagon train.Chris Vognar, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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The military has repeatedly massacred civilians in indiscriminate bombing raids, sometimes killing dozens at once.Declan Walsh, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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After 1099, when Christian armies conquered Jerusalem in the First Crusade and massacred the city’s Muslim and Jewish inhabitants, some 50,000 Jews reportedly fled to Damascus, making up nearly a third of residents.Bassem Mroue, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Dec. 2024
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With the film going into wide release on Dec. 25, Unknown has helped Dylan’s storied catalog receive a huge spike on streaming services since Christmas Day, with listeners putting away their holiday playlists and picking up Highway 61 Revisited.Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2025
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Uranus in Gemini pushes us to put away the swords and instead use our Mercurial communication skills to take a stand.Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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To qualify, the loan must have been taken out solely to pay qualified education expenses, and you must be legally obligated to pay the interest.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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However, the offenses that produce at the level Seattle aspires to don’t consistently allow their premier players to be taken out of the game.Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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Yesterday’s pangrams were alighting, annihilating, halting, hightailing and lathing.David Leonhardt, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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Why Red Bull struggled in 2024 In 2022 and 2023, Verstappen annihilated his rivals by winning 15 and 19 races out of the 22 in calendar respectively.Dan Cancian, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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As was the case with July's Republican National Convention, DNC nightly schedules are usually only released the day of and are subject to changes throughout the night, and the Tennessee Three's bump off the schedule is not unusual.Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 22 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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“Kill off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kill%20off. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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