extinguishing
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Its title suggests the regime is moving toward national reconciliation by extinguishing the spurious records it created of crimes it claims its opponents committed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
The company that flips the houses it buys online reported a widening loss of $1.1 billion, from a $113 million loss in the year-ago period, mostly on the cost of extinguishing debt.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026
Bitcoin dropped back below a key level early Monday, extinguishing hopes that last week’s mini-rebound would become a full-fledged comeback.
From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025
Images shown by Turkish media show firefighters extinguishing large flames.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
He took a bite of the chocolate and watched Lupin extinguishing the lamps that had rekindled with the disappearance of the dementor.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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