kaput
Example Sentences
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With less than a month of games remaining, the Lakers season is done, finished, kaput.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Jerry Seinfeld, who presumably knows a thing or two about show business, has said the film industry as currently constituted is kaput, even if Tinseltown has been slow to understand what’s happened in recent decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
"Don't worry about this Rwanda issue. It is kaput," he claimed.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024
So, I’m not surprised this thing finally went kaput.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2024
And then I think, does she mean “finished,” as in kaput, over and done with, out of commission?
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
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