1
as in to eradicate
to destroy all traces of
blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device
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as in to hide
to keep secret or shut off from view
bushes blotted out the shed from our view
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The cloud of dust from the impact blotted out the sunlight, causing a dramatic die-off of plants and animals, including the dinosaurs (except for birds).
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Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
The dust spread worldwide, blotting out sunlight and lowering temperatures for years, resulting in mass extinction.
—Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
Who wouldn’t want to blot out the rest of the big, bad world and spend this time fully engaged with all these welcoming strangers?
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024
Listen to this article Patsy Hirsch and her husband moved to an Elgin subdivision nearly three decades ago, drawn by a backyard thicket of oak, hickory and cherry trees so dense the canopy blotted out the sun.
—Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2024
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Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
The dust spread worldwide, blotting out sunlight and lowering temperatures for years, resulting in mass extinction.
—Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
Who wouldn’t want to blot out the rest of the big, bad world and spend this time fully engaged with all these welcoming strangers?
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024
Listen to this article Patsy Hirsch and her husband moved to an Elgin subdivision nearly three decades ago, drawn by a backyard thicket of oak, hickory and cherry trees so dense the canopy blotted out the sun.
—Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2024
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Then in May 2019, sanctions cut the ties between Huawei and Android-maker Google, eradicating Huawei phones’ appeal for almost all Western buyers.Andrew Williams, WIRED, 26 Oct. 2024
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In fact, two strains of the wild poliovirus (type 2 and type 3) were considered eradicated in 1999 and 2020, respectively.Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Then, there was Tommy Heffernan’s Body Buddies, a dark comedy where a wedding photographer and a mobster keep a body hidden in the middle of an engagement shoot.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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And, on September 28, CBP officers at the Pharr International Bridge uncovered nearly 1,950 pounds of a drug believed to be methamphetamine hidden in a tractor-trailer.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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The Cowboys erased the 49ers’ 3-0, first-quarter lead with an Ezekiel Elliott 1-yard touchdown run 1 minute into the second quarter.Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2024
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Shampoo is particularly adept at cleaning chrome faucets and other chrome finishings where grease, streaks, and fingerprints are just waiting to be erased.Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
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The Maine Ethics Commission recommends that state lawmakers increase the penalties for ‘straw’ donations, where a contributor gives money to an intermediary to be donated to a political group, cause or candidate to conceal the source of the campaign contribution.Chris Wade | The Center Square contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Oct. 2024
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And since people who shape public opinion online often conceal their true identities and place a lot of importance on anonymity, the makeup was a way to represent that.Regina Kim, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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The story revolves around a young spin doctor and a journalist who team up to reveal a conspiracy to abolish democracy in Sweden.Annika Pham, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
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The union also wants the reinstatement of a pension scheme that was abolished in 2008, which is a nonstarter for Boeing.Elodie Mazein, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
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The grass has grown, too, in New Orleans—so much so that in one of Nasseri’s photographs the bottom of a welcome sign by the side of a thoroughfare is obscured by it.Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
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This comprehensive approach allows law enforcement to track and identify vehicles more effectively, even when plates are obscured or altered.Lars Daniel, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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After all, that's what happened much more recently – just a few short 66 million years ago, to be exact – when a massive asteroid slamming into Earth is believed to have caused catastrophic devastation and wiped out the dinosaurs.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
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But a better understanding of these cellular weapons could eventually be harnessed to wipe out infections or algae blooms, or deliver medicines to cells in the body.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024
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Actually Practical Magic Conjuring up a life partner whose salary is that of a K-pop star, who can prepare pancake batter (and not from a box), who does not have any optical abnormalities as your health insurance doesn’t cover vision, and who can parallel park.Anna Pook, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
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As bats fly by the building steeple, an unlit Christmas tree covered in cobwebs adorns the stage.Dave Quinn, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Blot out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blot%20out. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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