extinguishment

Example Sentences

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The company’s adjusted earnings of 70 cents a share, which excludes nonrecurring items, such as losses on debt extinguishment, beat the FactSet-compiled consensus estimate of 44 cents a share.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 28, 2025

Local fire authorities in a now-deleted Facebook post said "a Tesla was on fire" and that they cooled "the batteries down to ensure complete extinguishment".

From Reuters • Jul. 2, 2021

He discussed “the extinguishment of the national debt,” and devoted many words to the maintenance of military might.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2017

That human yearning for moral certainty and clarity, even at the risk of extinguishment or fiery damnation, runs through Cohen’s lyrics.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2016

I rather incline to believe that he starts afresh in life under circumstances very favourable to the development of whatever is best, and to the extinguishment of what is worst in him.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund