annihilating

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Early on, researchers suspected that dark matter particles migh t be colliding and annihilating each other, creating intense bursts of radiation.

From Science Daily • Nov. 5, 2025

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

It started with Yordan Alvarez annihilating a 1-1 fastball, sending a low line drive like a Tiger Woods’ 1-iron over the wall in deep right-center.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Here, researchers can systematically release the antihydrogen molecules, measuring how many fall down and escape out of the bottom of the trap before annihilating and how many escape out of the top.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023

I know these two plots will come together like matter and antimatter, annihilating me in the explosion, but I see no way out.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman