annihilation
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While Vance was praising a technical framework designed to facilitate a regional ceasefire, the president was threatening the total annihilation of his negotiating partners, completely undermining his vice president’s diplomatic messaging.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The prospect of annihilation keeps the money flowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
In 2022, during the last review of the treaty that is considered the cornerstone of non-proliferation, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned humanity was "one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation."
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
In another scenario, the annihilation rate depends on particle velocity.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2026
The east is gray; it will be primrose soon and then red with firing and once more the weary backward marching will begin, retreating from annihilation, falling back upon defeat, though not quite yet.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
"For a given mass, such annihilations are the densest form of energy release that we know of," Fajans added.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2023
Around the galaxies, moats of empty space would open that would prevent matter-antimatter annihilations and, oddly, mimic dark matter dynamically.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 27, 2023
Dark matter annihilations could raise the temperature of a planet 14 times as massive as Jupiter from 250 K to 500 K or more, the researchers estimate.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 26, 2021
Similar annihilations occur for other combinations of a particle with its antiparticle, sometimes producing more particles while obeying all conservation laws.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
He rejected the notion that animals and plants suffered sudden annihilations, and believed that all the principal animal groups–mammals, reptiles, fish, and so on–had coexisted since the dawn of time.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing annihilation
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