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The Blue Jackets killed off the final seconds of regulation, but the Panthers started overtime with a four-on-three advantage.—Aaron Portzline, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025 Cataclysmic events have taken place five times in the past 500 million years, killing off most species from water and land over a relatively short geological interval.—Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Mar. 2025 Shortly after her character was killed off, she was invited to guest star as an alternate version of Laurel, the Black Siren, on spinoff series Flash.—John Russell, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025 The former saw 50 percent of all genera and 19 percent of all families become extinct, while the latter killed off some 60 percent of genera and nearly 85 percent of species in the world's oceans.—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kill off
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