as in to blot out
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Leitch and Stahelski also said they weren’t allowed to kill off Wick’s dog.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2024
The key to successful lacto-fermentation is the proper amount of salt—too much will hinder the growth of all bacteria, including Lactobacillus, and too little will fail to kill off everything else.
—Alex Testere, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2024
But modern times have been brutal on her business, with online retailers stealing costumers and COVID-19 killing off the once-lucrative rental market.
—Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
Soon after disappearing or getting killed off, teens Alice and Dan take center stage as they're trapped in another series of gruesome events.
—Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2024
The key to successful lacto-fermentation is the proper amount of salt—too much will hinder the growth of all bacteria, including Lactobacillus, and too little will fail to kill off everything else.
—Alex Testere, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2024
But modern times have been brutal on her business, with online retailers stealing costumers and COVID-19 killing off the once-lucrative rental market.
—Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
Soon after disappearing or getting killed off, teens Alice and Dan take center stage as they're trapped in another series of gruesome events.
—Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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As generative AI tools grow more commonplace, platforms that give up on trying to blot out bots will incubate an online world in which work created by humans becomes increasingly harder to find on platforms swamped by AI.Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 28 Oct. 2024
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Green might feel the air swirl around him or the force of a gust pushing dark clouds into the sky, blotting out the blue.Scottie Andrew, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
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Even better: the Southern turkey brand just announced a new cook-from-frozen bird to cut down on prep time and stress.Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2024
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Replacing a black plastic spatula with a steel or silicone option is an easy way to cut down on at least part of one’s daily dose of hormone disruptors.Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
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This is left somewhat ambiguous, but it is implied that Agatha is buying time for Nick by slaughtering covens of witches as an offering to Death.Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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In April of 1983, Hezbollah assaulted the U.S. Embassy in Beirut with a suicide truck bomb that slaughtered 63 people, including 17 Americans.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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But on the eastern side, they’re getting massacred by Ukrainian troops firing from fortifications the Ukrainians apparently captured from the Russians back in August.David Axe, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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The episode presented stunning spectacle, while saving its true horrors for the quake’s aftermath, when Japanese vigilantes began massacring Koreans.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
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But what is most impressive focusing on the modern age is that 50 goals have been put away in 2024/2025 in shorter time than the fabled 'MSN' trident consisting of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar needed.Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Alcala appeared on The Dating Game in 1978, but he wasn't arrested and put away for good until 1979.Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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As the title indicates, the story centers around Hit-Monkey (Fred Tatasciore), a snow monkey intent on taking out the Tokyo underworld with the help of his mentor, Bryce Fowler (Jason Sudeikis).Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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Many of those without insurance are forced to take out personal loans or second mortgages to afford infertility treatment that can cost more than $10,000 a cycle.Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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The reason is clear: most Americans understand that Israel is fighting for its very survival against terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, whose explicit mission is to annihilate Israel.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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This movie is about an oceanside town in Maryland that gets annihilated by huge lice that started by taking out marine life and have now found their way into humans.Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 Oct. 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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So, when people describe the Fed as driving a car through a tunnel with a windshield painted black, guiding itself with the rearview mirrors, oil demand forecasting is more like feeling your way bumping off the walls.Michael Lynch, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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“Kill off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kill%20off. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
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