annihilate

Hannah Arendt wrote that totalitarians try to annihilate thought, to break our sense of reality with lies, whether in words and in images.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Self-proclaimed experts usually attract trouble through hubris, though I’ve seen bank traders and hedge fund managers annihilate themselves with slavish beliefs in trading ranges.

From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026

Each particle of matter has an antimatter partner with the same mass but opposite charge, and when they meet, they annihilate into pure energy.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2025

I am covering this game for Radio 5 Live and part of me is thinking that Liverpool are going to click soon and just absolutely annihilate someone.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

But they let it run its course, fulfill itself, and never invented ways either to alter it, to annihilate it or to prevent its happening again.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

“She annihilates people on the steep pitch that’s like a sheet of ice,” Street said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

Arbus used her camera, Sontag wrote, as a “kind of passport that annihilates moral boundaries and social inhibitions, freeing the photographer from any responsibility toward the people photographed.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022

Meanwhile, deforestation, which annihilates the fungi along with their host trees, disrupts this whole underground, climate change-fighting ecosystem.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2022

Without the booze, the coconut cream or milk in a virgin piña colada just annihilates every other ingredient in its path.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2020

Also, this sort of farming annihilates the soil.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Those two forms of matter should then have annihilated one another, leaving behind energy rather than the matter-filled universe we see today.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

“I don’t think demand has been completely annihilated because of the war, but I’m sure it’s been impacted,” says John Lovallo, a UBS analyst covering home builders.

From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026

That this curiosity translates to cold, hard cash is fantastic news in the streaming era, when Netflix, Hulu and the like have all but annihilated the theatrical mid-budget film.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

He annihilated the Carthaginians and Numidians standing in his way, which forced Hannibal to retreat from southern Italy to fight what each man hoped would be “a final battle” at Zama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

Fischer was as dominant against Larsen as he’d been against Taimanov: He annihilated the Dane, shutting him out and winning every game.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The Jewish holiday Purim celebrates their triumph roughly 2,500 years ago over a minister to the king bent on annihilating the empire’s Jews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

His words have swerved through claims of victory to threats of annihilating Iranian civilisation to support for negotiations.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

But Ginsberg cautioned that dehumanization “didn't propose a compassion or tenderness or mutual involvement or Buddha nature as an alternative. It proposed a complete annihilating void and nothingness.”

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025

This can see insect species proliferate, annihilating many plant species.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024

How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this—smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky?

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote