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The militias emerged during the U.S. occupation of Iraq and later helped the U.S. vanquish Islamic State.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

One of these companies has a slightly more tolerable vision than the rest, although it’s fair to question whether any one of these ideals could ever vanquish the others.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2026

No actor could vanquish the memory preserved for posterity in Elia Kazan’s film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025

Unfortunately for us, we could not vanquish him sufficiently to prevent his return.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2024

When Bijan traveled to enemy territory to vanquish the boars, he fell in love with a princess, Manijeh, who was the daughter of his country’s greatest enemy.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

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

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2022

Doing so vanquishes the conflicting binocular images from both eyes, which the brain can’t overcome.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2022

“Do I have it in me?” she asks aloud with Fältskog, and in that moment, their merger vanquishes uncertainty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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

The Master of the Ring is he who in the end vanquishes all of the others.

From Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Bancroft, Jessie Hubbell

Once the slave power had been vanquished, the Reconstruction Congress sought to enshrine birthright citizenship in the Constitution so it could never be stripped away again.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026

They appear thin, weak and vanquished, like the "caliphate" they proclaimed in 2014.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025

She then folded herself up into that loaf shape peculiar to cats and regarded her vanquished foe with enormous feline satisfaction, her duty done.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

It neatly sums up the endgame in which we find ourselves — and his vanquishing of the preacher Eli speaks to what we worship in the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

As the play opens he is returning to Rome as a lauded hero, having led the city’s forces in vanquishing the Goths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

The demand for justice for a woman resonates with Durga Puja anyway, a festival built around a goddess vanquishing evil.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024

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