extinguishment

Example Sentences

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The company’s adjusted earnings of 70 cents a share, which excludes nonrecurring items, such as losses on debt extinguishment, beat the FactSet-compiled consensus estimate of 44 cents a share.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 28, 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency is taking over extinguishment efforts for a landfill fire in Moody, Alabama, federal officials announced Thursday.

From Washington Times • Jan. 20, 2023

He discussed “the extinguishment of the national debt,” and devoted many words to the maintenance of military might.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2017

That human yearning for moral certainty and clarity, even at the risk of extinguishment or fiery damnation, runs through Cohen’s lyrics.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2016

It was the last expansion of light, and momentary effulgence, that precedes the extinguishment of a taper.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert