slay

See: Warsh says he’s determined to slay inflation.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

"My friend Chrissie is a champion of champions and as such she will slay this monster again," said long-time rival and friend Martina Navratilova.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

But cultists are cultists, and when a local man starts recruiting teens to slay the demons haunting the area, an investigation by the three reveals his much larger, more elder-goddish plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

After seeing the Marías in concert, the couple hit up the band to further maximize their joint slay — and revamp the classic as a bilingual dream-pop track, simply named “Ojos Tristes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

Poseidon had given this bull to Minos in order that he should sacrifice it to him, but Minos could not bear to slay it and had kept it for himself.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

If Evil-Lyn can stop Adam with a freeze-ray, why does she wait until he slays many of her colleagues to do so?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Powell slays a dragon, he listens to Van Halen, he quotes William Wallace, and carves a self-portrait out of a tree.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2025

Now as “Shōgun’s” Lord Toranaga, the Japanese martial arts star has room to stretch beyond impressive swordfighting scenes … and he slays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

It's about David, the shepherd boy who battles the giant Goliath, and against the odds, slays him.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2024

Of course this aria would be written by someone with this name, the very utterance of which slays me—the trilled rr and knife-blade-between-the-teeth ss in his name.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

He has won every election by a landslide, slayed the dragons, corraled the wild beasts and brought peace, tranquility and a great economy to his kingdom.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Moderates are taking the proposal in stride, declaring victory after having slayed the sort of overhauls that Roy and others were pushing for.

From Slate ● May 13, 2025

"We literally ran from the Radisson Red, there were no soundchecks and Daniel went on and just absolutely slayed the audience. He was just sensational," he said.

From BBC ● May 6, 2024

Having recently slayed the crowds at Kia Forum, their next trip to Inglewood is sure to have fans at the YouTube Theater rolling in the aisles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

If they could see us, they might see how I’m slayed, crippled with grief.

From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The buzz has also spawned a slew of similar offerings, both open-source models and tools from established companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Jailbreaks present a different kind of risk to those seen with the recent slew of high-profile AI incidents.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

That should help SpaceX test a slew of improvements to Starship and its Super Heavy booster, setting up what the company called the “next phase” of making the rocket fully reusable.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Beyond Coachella, YouTube doubled down on livestreaming during its presentation, unveiling a slew of new live and AI-powered tools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Their room was a pitiful mess of clothes, wet towels, orange peel, torn-up pieces of a comic arranged around a sheet of paper, upended chairs partly covered by blankets and the mattresses at a slew.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Last week, the county Board of Supervisors voted to rename a section of Avenue Q in Palmdale in honor of the slain deputy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Shakur was 25 when he was slain at the height of his career as one of rap's most influential voices.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

At the Zurbatiyah crossing, large fans sprayed mist to cool the heat as pilgrims passed portraits of Khamenei, his son and successor Mujtaba, and other slain commanders from Iran's so-called "axis of resistance."

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

“Princess Mononoke” begins with a worm-covered demon attacking a pastoral village, only to be slain by its prince, Ashitaka.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

So far, they’d slain a Laistrygonian ogre in the bakery, battled a giant warthog in the public square and defeated a flock of Stymphalian birds with some well-aimed vegetables from Piper’s cornucopia.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Salazar’s mother previously told The Times her son had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and hospitalized for his mental health struggles in the years before the slaying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Her slaying shocked the world and put Malta, the European Union's smallest member state, in the spotlight over its apparent rule-of-law failings.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Defense attorney Michael Sanft argued Davis’s book was a self-aggrandizing fiction designed to profit from Tupac’s historical slaying and insisted there was little evidence to corroborate his client’s written claims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

At her morning news conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum vowed that Gastelum’s slaying would not go unpunished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Keim is stunned by the slaying of Lincoln.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly