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annihilation

[uh-nahy-uh-ley-shuhn] / əˌnaɪ əˈleɪ ʃən /




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“Black milk of dawn,” “your golden hair Margarete,” “your ashen hair Shulamit”: the poem sets German culture and Jewish annihilation to a cadence so memorable that its memorability becomes part of its danger.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

In 2022, during the last review of the treaty considered the cornerstone of non-proliferation, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned humanity was "one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation."

From Barron's Apr. 27, 2026

In this picture, the chance of annihilation depends not only on how often particles interact, but also on the balance between the two types of dark matter in a given system.

From Science Daily Apr. 10, 2026

How much can one film really change a world that seems like it’s careening faster and faster toward annihilation?

From Salon Mar. 14, 2026

Such quick, arbitrary, effective, and wholesale annihilation fazed the surviving ant armies not one whit.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

"For a given mass, such annihilations are the densest form of energy release that we know of," Fajans added.

From Science Daily Sep. 27, 2023

Around the galaxies, moats of empty space would open that would prevent matter-antimatter annihilations and, oddly, mimic dark matter dynamically.

From Science Magazine Sep. 27, 2023

Dark matter annihilations could raise the temperature of a planet 14 times as massive as Jupiter from 250 K to 500 K or more, the researchers estimate.

From Science Magazine Mar. 26, 2021

Similar annihilations occur for other combinations of a particle with its antiparticle, sometimes producing more particles while obeying all conservation laws.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

He rejected the notion that animals and plants suffered sudden annihilations, and believed that all the principal animal groups–mammals, reptiles, fish, and so on–had coexisted since the dawn of time.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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