as in to bomb
to defeat by a large margin
man, they totally smoked us today!
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Recent Examples of smoke
Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
The amount of noise and smoke this thing generates are common traits of a chainsaw engine.
—New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2024
Tawanda Karombo, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2024
Pay attention to whether there is excessive smoke while building a fire, soot build-up, or drafts entering the chimney.
—Heather Bien, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2024
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Obesity is now the second-leading cause of preventable death in the United States, right after smoking.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
The amount of noise and smoke this thing generates are common traits of a chainsaw engine.
—New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2024
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Within hours, around $5 million in goods, cash, and property went up in smoke, according to official estimates.
—Tawanda Karombo, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2024
Pay attention to whether there is excessive smoke while building a fire, soot build-up, or drafts entering the chimney.
—Heather Bien, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2024
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Casino hotels kept guests carefully contained, so local shops, restaurants and businesses bombed — save for pawn shops.Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
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Israel has bombed and destroyed Syrian military facilities across the country and seized additional territory along the Golan Heights.Sam Heller, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
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There are two helipads, a spa containing a steam room, sauna, as well as a gym and beach club.Jim Dobson, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Much as all this is undeniable catnip for social media feeds, the actual experience is lushly analog, with days spent flitting between hammocks and the steam room, hot tub, and cold plunge tucked inside a dramatic temescal.Emily Hochberg, Travel + Leisure, 18 Dec. 2024
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But these will come to naught unless the government can see them clearly—and find the strength to take advantage of them.Robert M. Danin, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
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Scientists use a metric called the basic reproduction number or reproduction value — referred to as R0 and pronounced R naught — to rate how transmissible or contagious a disease is.Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Aug. 2021
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Since the property changed hands, its sole restaurant, 18 Restaurant & Bar, has become more markedly gourmet with fare like scallops dusted with seaweed crumbs, smoked trout under cucumber and vermouth relish, and venison enlivened by juniper jus and pickled berries.Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024
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Dust pieces before storage: A light dusting with a soft cloth (such as a jewelry polishing cloth) is usually all that’s needed before organizing breakables to store until next Christmas.Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
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Snowflake Customer Breaches Throughout the summer, attackers were on a tear, breaching prominent companies and organizations that were all customers of the cloud data storage company Snowflake.Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
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With this option, functions are deployed directly into your cloud environment, and the provider takes care of managing the infrastructure.Matt Butcher, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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Empty space threatens to overwhelm her lattice of pinpricks and sparkles; her granular timbres often seem on the verge of dissolving into nothingness.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
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At this point, resisting the urge to rotate, the superfluid suddenly spawns a single quantum vortex — a whorl of atoms surrounding a column of nothingness that extends to the bottom of the bucket.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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Lawmakers overcame the 60-vote threshold to bypass a filibuster in a 73-27 vote.Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
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Yet, deeper reading reveals an honest assessment of the challenges still to be overcome in making change a reality.Lauren Coulman, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Close the drain tightly with a plug to prevent chlorine fumes from escaping.Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
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Then, residents complained of smelly fumes from the landfill, which has homes and businesses immediately adjacent to it and Edison High School close by.Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Smoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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