annihilated
Example Sentences
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Let’s take managed-care stocks, which have been annihilated year to date.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
That this curiosity translates to cold, hard cash is fantastic news in the streaming era, when Netflix, Hulu and the like have all but annihilated the theatrical mid-budget film.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
They annihilated France but couldn't reproduce anything like that performance in Dublin.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
He annihilated the Carthaginians and Numidians standing in his way, which forced Hannibal to retreat from southern Italy to fight what each man hoped would be “a final battle” at Zama.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025
The entire aquatic crab population was apparently destroyed and the fiddler crabs, all but annihilated, survived temporarily only in patches of marsh evidently missed by the pellets.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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