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extinguish

[ik-sting-gwish] / ɪkˈstɪŋ gwɪʃ /




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It would extinguish a radical experiment with an ugly shadow stretching from Lebanon to Indonesia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Projections last year from the New York Fed showed the Fed could have operating profits this year, and that it could extinguish the deferred asset by the end of the decade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The blaze lasted multiple days and required the services of 200 firefighters to extinguish.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026

Yet the idea that a Netflix-WBD merger would extinguish video competition is a chimera.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

A scarred ruin belching smoke, the only fireman dispatched to extinguish it slouched in defeat, blistered and weary, his hose run dry.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs