annihilate

Example Sentences

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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

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

In their mutually reinforcing preparations to annihilate one another, erase the past and foreclose the possibility of future generations, he concluded, “the superpowers have dutifully embraced this legacy…Adolf Hitler lives on.”

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025

Now, one truth about this particular bit of real estate threatens to annihilate the other.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024

One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time, move apart, and then come together again and annihilate each other.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking