vanquish

They claim North Carolina, vanquish Collins, and spring upsets in Texas and Alaska.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Warsh has vowed the Fed will vanquish inflation and meet its 2% goal, but Wall Street investors have grown more doubtful.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

There is a problem, though, and it comes from the unlikelihood that OpenAI or Anthropic will ever vanquish the other.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2026

The sleepy town of Hawkins is under quarantine as the show’s heroes search for a way to find and vanquish the baddie Vecna.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

“Is this where you tell me I’m special anyway and my superpower is just being Zeke and that’ll be enough to vanquish the villain?”

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

For instance, in one scene in the Depardieu film, Cyrano duels and vanquishes a vicomte who insults his nose.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2022

It’s also hard to build a code that vanquishes the back-and-forth.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2021

The verse in Crimp’s woos and vanquishes just as seductively, though the leaner verse couples of rap battles and poetry slams.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2020

It moves like an action thriller, with the high-energy Washington track “Street Fighter Mas” scoring a narrative involving Washington as a kung-fu style protagonist who vanquishes a competitor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2018

No battle vanquishes the true, E'en thought of death is sweet To him whose soul would e'er subdue The scorpion-sting—deceit.

From Our Profession and Other Poems by Jared Barhite

But before it was vanquished, the blaze chewed through about a third of the island, one of five that comprise Channel Islands National Park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

A mystery not long ago, San Antonio’s star from France has conquered the NBA and vanquished its defending champion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The diet culture of the ’90s was never totally vanquished, and Ozempic has complicated narratives about body size, health, and self-love, to put it mildly.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026

In this zero-sum view of the world, any perceived enemies must not merely be defeated but vanquished altogether.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026

Then Sauron was vanquished and his spirit fled and was hidden for long years, until his shadow took shape again in Mirkwood.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

In a fascinating footnote, the disgraced admiral reclaimed his reputation and won a peerage in Britain by vanquishing the French in a 1782 naval battle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Hoping to avoid joining the historic list, the Lakers get a third try at vanquishing the Rockets for good in Game 6 on Friday at 6:30 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

The work represents "the vanquishing of nuclear war through the historic treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States", according to the UN website.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025

Yet, in a world marked by scientific uncertainty, the promise of "a cure" as a magic elixir is the ultimate expression of science vanquishing the bad enemy.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2023

He fared better than his twin, vanquishing an elderly knight whose mount was bedecked with silver griffins against a striped blue-and-white field.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin