kaput
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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
I feel I need to go until I’m done thinking or until my brain just goes kaput.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
His latest acquisition is a spider that, unbeknown to Kaleb, was smuggled from a Middle Eastern desert after rendering one of its captors agonizingly kaput.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024
"Don't worry about this Rwanda issue. It is kaput," he claimed.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 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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