as in to bomb
to defeat by a large margin
man, they totally smoked us today!
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Recent Examples of smoke
Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Fire damage was limited to three rooms, though there is smoke damage in much of the building, according to another news release the district published Saturday.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2025
Jeffrey Kopp, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
An adjacent storefront will eventually be stocked with wine, home goods and take-home versions of their dishes, such as pimento cheese and smoked catfish dips.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
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Verb
What To Know Two NWS offices issued the dense smoke advisories on Sunday night.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Fire damage was limited to three rooms, though there is smoke damage in much of the building, according to another news release the district published Saturday.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
Over that time span, smoking among US adults fell from about 42% in 1965 to just 12% today, according to an analysis of CDC data by the American Lung Association.
—Jeffrey Kopp, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
An adjacent storefront will eventually be stocked with wine, home goods and take-home versions of their dishes, such as pimento cheese and smoked catfish dips.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoke
Verb
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For the first time, Israel launched an airstrike in Qatar, bombing a building in Doha that houses Hamas political leadership.—
Greg Dixon,
NPR,
9 Sep. 2025
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Israel has also regularly bombed the south.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But Karl Maybach’s greatest contribution to the wonders of European civilization were his enormously powerful diesel engines that gave birth to the very first high-speed trains of Europe, emphatically putting steam trains out of business.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Once the timer beeps, leave the door closed for another minute so the steam can do its work.—
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott,
Southern Living,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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So the general vindication of the method was a very big deal for the IRS because, had the Tax Court invalidated the method, basically the whole cautionary and regulatory overhaul would have been for naught.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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That will count for nought as the real business gets underway, however, as Saturday's hosts seek to claim an early scalp despite barely avoiding relegation last term.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
Verb
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That the Chargers team that finished a respectable 11-6 last season before being dusted, 32-12, in a wild-card playoff loss to the Houston Texans can be much more formidable offensively.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
11 Sep. 2025
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Trails remain accessible, wildlife is still active and early snow dusts the surrounding Chugach Mountains.—
Allison Palmer,
Sacbee.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The subsequent breakout lifted NIO above key resistance from the weekly cloud model, a long-term trend following tool denoted by the shaded area on the chart.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
15 Sep. 2025
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Third-party cloud storage providers that have shifted to using Apple's File Provider API, as most of them have, can display results here and in the general Spotlight search view.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Eckhardt’s commentaries on God and scripture are dense and recursive, breaking ideas into component parts, placing them onto higher and lower planes, making hierarchies and triads out of them until eventually becoming something like an investigation into being and nothingness themselves.—
Jon Raymond
August 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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At nearly 60, a life of nothingness without love—what is the point?—
Greg Norman , David Spunt,
FOXNews.com,
2 Aug. 2025
Verb
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How Wi-Fi HaLow Can Help Address These Needs To overcome connectivity gaps in large-scale environmental monitoring, some researchers and technologists are turning to Wi-Fi HaLow.—
Michael De Nil,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The movie adaptation is also rife with metaphors about boys becoming men and overcoming life-or-death circumstances to make it out the other side.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In front of a packed crowd of surgeons, Morton asked Abbott to breathe in the fumes of a sweet-smelling liquid, known as ether, contained inside a small glass sphere.—
RJ Mackenzie,
Popular Science,
3 Sep. 2025
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The work catalogues minor and major mass contagions, from the seventeenth-century tulip mania in the Netherlands to the California telephone illness of 1984, in which eighty employees at a telephone operator facility suddenly fell ill after a coworker claimed to smell toxic fumes.—
Christy Lange,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Smoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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